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    Crushing the canon: Nicolas Jacquier’s response to the Canon Episcopi in the Flagellum haereticorum fascinariorum

    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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    Item Type: Article
    Additional Information: All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations used for purposes of scholarly citation, none of this work may be reproduced in any form by any means without written permission from the publisher. For information address the University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112.
    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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