Poena Omnipotenta, or the Triumph of Punishment: A Poetic Commentary on the Cautio Criminalis of Friedrich Spee Von Langenfeld by Jabez L. Van Cleef

Poena Omnipotenta, or the Triumph of Punishment: A Poetic Commentary on the Cautio Criminalis of Friedrich Spee Von Langenfeld

Jabez L. Van Cleef

156 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In the darkest hours of the 17th century German witch hunts, Spee, a Jesuit priest, meditated on the confessions of accused women and resolved to subject the church's torture practices to a rigorous logical analysis. The result is a cogent and per...

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