Heinrich Kramer

The Marquise of O- by Heinrich von Kleist is a story chock-full of secrets and unsaid ideas, such as the ambiguity of details regarding Giulietta’s possible rape. Furthermore, if every word isn’t read with the utmost attention, something major will slip notice. Specifically, when Giulietta is talking to her midwife, whom she has called in to hopefully deny her illegitimate pregnancy, she briefly states that she “conceived knowingly” (Kleist 91). This can be surprising after a second reading, as…

Premodern authors such as Richard Kieckhefer and Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger produced pieces of literature depicting how the premodern witch was perceived during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. During the time period, there was a large emphasis on the church and since witchcraft went against the ideals of the church the premodern witch was considered an “evil” doer of magic. Modern authors such as Ronald Hutton and Meagan Bolds have formed pieces of literature giving definitions…

presented theories to unfold the phenomena of the gender marginality across different parts of Europe by examining the trials records of those convicted and by referring to the old settlements of Witchcraft: the Malleus Maleficarum (1486) made by Heinrich Kramer, and Jacob Sprenger, and the Formicarius (1437) made by Johannes Nider. The writings of my essay will be written in the…

Although the majority of people persecuted during these great witch-hunts were women, we’ve learned that 25% of those persecuted were men. This clearly shows that the witch-hunts weren’t just focused on a war on women. From the publishing of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger’s book, Malleus Maleficarum however, we are led to believe that the witch-hunts were in fact, a war on women. "All wickedness, […] is but little to the wickedness of a woman. […] What else is woman but a foe to friendship,…

Betty Betty’s lack of desire to marry or perform womanly duties results in an accusation of witchcraft, explicating the ways in which women suffer due to societal expectations. Betty is bled by the village doctor in scene six, a process believed to reveal witches, which Vinegar Tom’s production note advises “is one of humiliation rather than torture and Pack is an efficient professional, not a sadistic manic” (134). Later, Betty visits Ellen’s cottage, where she laments, “I don’t know what I’m…

Malleus Maleficarumgg in its content is a pretty cruel treatise. Heinrich Kramer tries to prove that the witchcraft is real and has demonic nature and that women are more likely to use such powers to hurt people – usually men – than men themselves. Heinrich Kramer was an inquisitor, therefore, it is more than understandable that he had a desire to let such beliefs and stereotypes live. Thus, it is not a surprise that preoccupied with men’s virility and the role women play in either “weakening”…

Roman Inquisition in the 13th century, the Catholic Church was anxious from the fine line of superstition and witchcraft being a threat to their teachings. During this time period, two Theologist professors by the names of Jacob Sprenger and Heinrich Kramer crafted an essential “guidebook” for Inquisitors in search of witches. Appropriately named, Malleus Maleficarum, Latin for “The Hammer for Witches”, was held in the hands for Inquisitors to properly dispose of those who worked for the devil…

Also known as ‘The Malleus Maleficarum’, The Witch’s Hammer was a book, arguably one of the most infamous books ever written, by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger. The actual translation of it is “Hammer of Witches”. It was published in the year of 1487. During the Inquisition, it served as a guidebook for Inquisitors and was designed to aid them in the identification, prosecution, and dispatching of Witches. It came to be widely regarded as irrefutable truth and are held today by a majority of…

The Witches Hammer/Hammer of Witches The Witches Hammer is the English Translation for the Malleus Maleficarum (Latin) or Der Hexenhammer (German) this is the infamous book which was written in 1486 by two monks and theology professors, Heinrich Kramer, an inquisitor of the Catholic Church, and Jacob Sprenger, it was first published in 1487 in Germany. It is now believed by many that Sprenger was not an author of the book, with his input being more symbolic than it was active. The Witches…

A Critical Review of Malleus Maleficarum The Malleus Maleficarum is a famous medieval treaty of on the life and activities of witches. The book was written in 1486 by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger with the first publication done in English. Allegedly, Kramer was the chief author of the work, and Sprenger was the co-author because he had a higher reputation. The work has been regarded to have been written after the writing of a bull by Pope Innocent VIII, which gave people permission to kill…