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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.
Rio, del, Martin Antoine --- Contre-Réforme --- Église --- Démonologie --- Histoire des doctrines --- Delrío, Martín Antonio (1551-1608) --- 235.2 --- 271.5 <460> --- #GBIB:jesuitica --- Kwade engelen. Demonen. Demonologie. Duivel. Satan. Lucifer. Asmodeus. Beëlzebub. Mephistoteles --- jezuiten --- Demonology --- Church history --- Catholic Church and humanism. --- Contrareformatie. --- Demonologie. --- Hekserij. --- Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex (Del Rio) --- History --- Del Rio, Martin Antoine --- 235.2 Kwade engelen. Demonen. Demonologie. Duivel. Satan. Lucifer. Asmodeus. Beëlzebub. Mephistoteles --- Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex (Del Rio). --- Del Rio, Martin Antoine, --- Catholic Church and humanism --- Counter-Reformation --- del Rio, Martin Antoine, --- humanism --- Jesuit [Christian order] --- Contre-Réforme. --- Doctrines --- Delrio, Martin, Antonio S.J. --- del Rio, Martin Antoine, - 1551-1608 --- Delrio, Martin Antonio S.J.
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Book history --- printers [people] --- Moretus [Family] --- Plantin, Christopher
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literature [documents] --- Latijnse literatuur --- Seneca [Younger] --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599
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History of civilization --- History of Europe --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699
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History as a science --- White, Andrew Dickson --- Burr, George Lincoln
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'And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.' (2 Corinthians 11:14) Paul's warning of false apostles and false righteousness struck a special chord in the period of the European Reformations. At no other time was the need for the discernment of spirits felt as strongly as in this newly confessional age. More than ever, the ability to discern was a mark of holiness and failure the product of demonic temptation. The contributions to this volume chart individual responses to a problem at the heart of religious identity. They show that the problem of discernment was not solely a Catholic concern and was an issue for authors and artists as much as for prophets and visionaries.
History of civilization --- anno 1600-1699 --- 235.01 --- Engelen. Angelologie --- Conferences - Meetings --- 235.01 Engelen. Angelologie --- Sainteté moderne --- Discernement --- Angels --- Demonology --- Devil --- History
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letters [correspondence] --- humanists [people] --- Lipsius, Justus --- Rio, del, Martin Antoine --- Lessius, Leonardus
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