TY - BOOK ID - 652569 TI - Martin Delrio : demonology and scholarship in the Counter-Reformation PY - 2015 VL - *11 SN - 9780197265802 0197265804 PB - Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Rio, del, Martin Antoine KW - Contre-Réforme KW - Église KW - Démonologie KW - Histoire des doctrines KW - Delrío, Martín Antonio (1551-1608) KW - 235.2 KW - 271.5 <460> KW - #GBIB:jesuitica KW - Kwade engelen. Demonen. Demonologie. Duivel. Satan. Lucifer. Asmodeus. Beëlzebub. Mephistoteles KW - jezuiten KW - Demonology KW - Church history KW - Catholic Church and humanism. KW - Contrareformatie. KW - Demonologie. KW - Hekserij. KW - Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex (Del Rio) KW - History KW - Del Rio, Martin Antoine KW - 235.2 Kwade engelen. Demonen. Demonologie. Duivel. Satan. Lucifer. Asmodeus. Beëlzebub. Mephistoteles KW - Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex (Del Rio). KW - Del Rio, Martin Antoine, KW - Catholic Church and humanism KW - Counter-Reformation KW - del Rio, Martin Antoine, KW - humanism KW - Jesuit [Christian order] KW - Contre-Réforme. KW - Doctrines KW - Delrio, Martin, Antonio S.J. KW - del Rio, Martin Antoine, - 1551-1608 KW - Delrio, Martin Antonio S.J. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:652569 AB - If the Jesuit Martin Delrio (1551-1608) is remembered at all today, it is for his Disquisitiones magicae (1599-1600), a voluminous tome on witchcraft and superstition which was reprinted numerous times until 1755. The present volume recovers the lost world of Delrio's wider scholarship. Delrio emerges here as a figure of considerable interest not only to historians of witchcraft but to the broader fields of early modern cultural, religious and intellectual history as well. As the editor of classical texts, notably Senecan tragedy, Delrio had a number of important philological achievements to his name. A friend of the Flemish philosopher Justus Lipsius (1547-1606) and an enemy of the Huguenot scholar Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609), he played an important part in the Republic of Letters and the confessional polemics of his day. Delrio's publications after his admission to the Society of Jesus (the Disquisitiones included) marked a significant contribution to the intellectual culture of the Counter-Reformation. Catholic contemporaries accordingly rated him highly, but later generations proved less kind. As attitudes towards witchcraft changed, the context in which the Disquisitiones first emerged disappeared from view and its author became a byword for credulity and cruelty. Recovering this background throws important new light on a period in history when the worlds of humanism and Catholic Reform collided. In an important chapter, the book demonstrates that demonology, in Delrio's hands, was a textual science, an insight that sheds new light on the way witchcraft was believed in. At the same time, the book also develops a wider argument about the significance of Delrio's writings, arguing that the Counter-Reformation can also be seen as a textual project and Delrio's contribution to it as the product of a mindset forged in its fragile borderlands. ER -