Champion, Matthew (2011) Scourging the temple of god: towards an understanding of Nicolas Jacquier’s Flagellum haereticorum fascinariorum (1458). Parergon 28 (1), pp. 1-24. ISSN 0313-6221.
Abstract
Despite its importance as an early example of fifteenth-century attacks on a sect of demon-worshipping heretics, Nicholas Jacquier's Flagellum haereticorum fascinariorum remains neglected in English-language histories of witchcraft and the late medieval world. Integrating Jacquier's text into such histories, I situate the Flagellum and its author within both modern scholarly discourse on demonology and reconstructed fifteenth-century contexts. By examining in detail the Flagellum's opening chapters on demonic illusion and corporeality, I elucidate many of the characteristic forms of Jacquier's argument, and conclude by signalling the possibilities for using texts like Jacquier's to construct wider cultural histories of late medieval Burgundy.
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| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies |
| Depositing User: | Matthew Champion |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Dec 2017 12:41 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:37 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/20606 |
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