The Malleus Maleficarum is the most famous early modern text on witches and witch hunting. Often known as the 'Hammer of Witches', the Malleus consists of a demonstration of the existence of ...

To register your interest please contact collegesales@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching. The Malleus Maleficarum is the most famous early modern text on witches and witch ...

3. There was a best-selling handbook on how to hunt witches Malleus Maleficarum (which meant the Hammer of Witches) was published in 1487 by a German monk called Heinrich Kramer. It argued that ...