New College Library, Oxford, BT3.259.6 [detail]

Fear Sells: Addenda to the 1588 Malleus Maleficarum

Caitlín Kane
Issue number
(2023): 19

New College Library holds a 1588 edition of the renowned treatise on witchcraft, the Malleus Maleficarum or ‘Hammer of Witches’, the archetypal misogynistic text which advocated the persecution and torture of witches as heretics in secular courts.

 

New College Library, Oxford, BT3.259.6

 

New College Library and Archives, Oxford