MALDONADO, Juan

by Juan Maldonado

£4,950 · Offered by Sokol Books

Rare popular edition of this important and most influential treatise on Angels and Demons by the Jesuit Juan Maldonado, first published in 1605 in this French translation, though the lectures from which the work derived started in 1571. The work was particularly influential; two of the most important Catholic demonologists, Martin del Rio and the witch-hunting magistrate Pierre de Lancre, were among Maldonado's auditors, and both drew heavily on him in their own demonologies. This French translation, by Francois de La Borie, brought the work to a much wider audience. Juan Maldonado, a Spanish Jesuit, was appointed in 1565 to the chair of theology at the College of Clermont, a recently founded Jesuit institution in Paris. In the academic year 1571-1572, Maldonado gave a series of lectures on demons. These lectures were given on Sundays and holidays to maximize attendance and employed a simple Latin so that more people could understand them. Maldonado presented demonology in terms of the religious struggle between Catholics and Calvinists then convulsing France, emphasizing the connections between heretics, witches and demons. .. Much demonology coming from league supporters, such as the Spanish Jesuit and Parisian professor Juan Maldonado, strongly identified sorcery with heresy, endorsing a witch-hunt as complementary to a campaign to eradicate Protestant heresy. Even Catholics who opposed the League, such as Queen Catherine de Medici (1519-1589) and King Henri III (r. 1574-1

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