Veneficiis vel maleficiis.

Veneficiis vel maleficiis.

Fr. COLLARD, Veneficiis vel maleficiis. Reflections on relations between poisoning and witchcraft in the medieval Western world. Both narrative and legal sources in the medieval Western world provide us with a number of cases combining witchcraft and poisoning. Indeed associating the two has bee...

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Autor principal: Collard, Franck
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Français
Publicat: 2003
Matèries:
beliefs
Criminal poisoning
occult
veneficium
witchcraft
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spelling cairn-RMA_091_0009RMALe Moyen Âge https://shs.cairn.info/revue-le-moyen-age-2003-1-page-9?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rma.091.0009 Veneficiis vel maleficiis. Collard, Franck2003 beliefsCriminal poisoningoccultveneficiumwitchcraftfre Le Moyen Âge | CIX | 1 | 2003-02-01 | p. 9-57 | 0027-2841 RMA_09132 Fr. COLLARD, Veneficiis vel maleficiis. Reflections on relations between poisoning and witchcraft in the medieval Western world. Both narrative and legal sources in the medieval Western world provide us with a number of cases combining witchcraft and poisoning. Indeed associating the two has been common practice in the history of witchcraft. The present study aims at assessing to what extent this linking rests on actual criminal practices or on popular representations. It first establishes in which cases and in what ways the two practices converge. The legal and lexical roots of the association and how they intersect in culture and people’s perceptions are examined next. Veneficium and maleficium are both connected to the occult, which explains the parallel in the chart tracing their repression in the late Middle Ages. We note, however, that there is a simultaneous attempt at uncoupling the two practices in that « common » poisoning is distinguished from the use of satanic powders mentioned in witchcraft trials. This process of « dis-spelling» criminal poisoning extended into the 17th century.Cairn free access
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topic beliefs
Criminal poisoning
occult
veneficium
witchcraft
spellingShingle beliefs
Criminal poisoning
occult
veneficium
witchcraft
Collard, Franck
Veneficiis vel maleficiis.
topic_facet beliefs
Criminal poisoning
occult
veneficium
witchcraft
description Fr. COLLARD, Veneficiis vel maleficiis. Reflections on relations between poisoning and witchcraft in the medieval Western world. Both narrative and legal sources in the medieval Western world provide us with a number of cases combining witchcraft and poisoning. Indeed associating the two has been common practice in the history of witchcraft. The present study aims at assessing to what extent this linking rests on actual criminal practices or on popular representations. It first establishes in which cases and in what ways the two practices converge. The legal and lexical roots of the association and how they intersect in culture and people’s perceptions are examined next. Veneficium and maleficium are both connected to the occult, which explains the parallel in the chart tracing their repression in the late Middle Ages. We note, however, that there is a simultaneous attempt at uncoupling the two practices in that « common » poisoning is distinguished from the use of satanic powders mentioned in witchcraft trials. This process of « dis-spelling» criminal poisoning extended into the 17th century.
author Collard, Franck
author_facet Collard, Franck
author_sort Collard, Franck
title Veneficiis vel maleficiis.
title_short Veneficiis vel maleficiis.
title_full Veneficiis vel maleficiis.
title_fullStr Veneficiis vel maleficiis.
title_full_unstemmed Veneficiis vel maleficiis.
title_sort veneficiis vel maleficiis.
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