Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Campagne, Fabián Alejandro
• Machielsen, Jan

Titel

A Spanish demonologist during the French Wars of Religion: Juan Maldonado’s Traicté des anges et demons

Ist Teil von

• The Science of Demons, 2020, p.211-223

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• During one of the most violent phases of the French Wars of Religion (1562-1598), the Spanish Jesuit Juan Maldonado made an extraordinarily original contribution to early-modern demonology. This contribution did not originally take on a printed form: rather it started life as a theological course taught at one of the most prestigious and innovative Parisian educational institutions of the period. Between 1551 and 1557 Maldonado studied grammar, Greek, logic, rhetoric and philosophy in Salamanca. Even more recent historians have, for the most part ignored him and have continued to underestimate his significance both for his contribution to Catholic theology and demonology, and for his role in the Wars of Religion. The lectures dedicated to impure spirits also show a trace of bitterness which reflected the anti-Protestant fanaticism of the author, disappointed by the outcome of the Third War of Religion (1568-1570), which made considerable concessions to French Protestants.