Spelling out the book’s importance, the conjurers of a new study reveal that Malleus Maleficarum – aided by the invention of the printing press in 1450 – was largely responsible for the ...

THE Pope's Bull is printed as preface to all editions of the “Malleus maleficarum.” It was taken as authoritative by Catholic inquisitors, and, presumably, by most of the faithful. This is ...

Witchcraft had now been linked directly to evil and the Devil ... Title page of Heinrich Kramer's 1486 book, Hammer of Witches (or Malleus Maleficarum as it was called in Latin).