The agents of Satan: a comparative analysis between the Directorium Inquisitorum , the Malleus Maleficarum and the Western Christian demonizing discourse on witchcraft (XIV-XV)
Witchcraft; Women; Devil; Middle Ages.
This dissertation intends to make a comparative analysis between the Malleus Maleficarum and the Directorium Inquisitorum, in order to verify which are the ruptures and continuities of the discourses contained in the works and how both influence the issue of the construction of the witch's imaginary and the demonization of the feminine.