Champion, Matthew (2011) Crushing the canon: Nicolas Jacquier’s response to the Canon Episcopi in the Flagellum haereticorum fascinariorum. Magic, Witchcraft, Ritual 6 (2), pp. 183-211. ISSN 1556-8547.
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Abstract
Nicholas Jacquier’s Flagellum haereticorum fascinariorum, along with other works of the fifteenth century, attacks the canon Episcopi and its denial of witches’ flight. It argues that the sect of witches (or fascinarii) is new and unlike the women mentioned in the canon: they are conscious and awake while participating in “synagogues”; they have direct bodily communication with demons; faithful witness report on these meetings, giving dates and other signs of trustworthiness; and the fascinarii worship demons. Jacquier undermines the source of the canon, the Council of Ancyra: it was a local and not universal council, and it makes theologically problematic claims. Jacquier draws on contemporary reform of women’s piety of inwardness. He shows particular concern with the trampling of consecrated hosts, a deeply charged symbolic act.
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| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | Flagellum haereticorum fascinariorum, Nicolas Jacquier, Council of Ancyra, Johannes Nider, Errores Gazariorum, Alfonso Tostado, John of Torquemada, Rogier van der Weyden, witchcraft, witchcraft theory, host desecration, fascinarii, Dominican reformers, canon Episcopi |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies |
| Depositing User: | Matthew Champion |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Dec 2017 12:37 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:37 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/20605 |
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