Scrutinizing the Devil’s Plots: Magic, Witchcraft, and Inquisitions (XIII-XIX century), Triora Fourth Inquire Conference, 3-4 October 2024
Fourth Inquire Conference
Triora, 3-4 October 2024
Scrutinizing the Devil’s Plots: Magic, Witchcraft, and Inquisitions (XIII-XIX century)
Thursday 3 October
Introduction: Irene Bueno, Vincenzo Lavenia, Riccardo Parmeggiani
1. Late Medieval Magic and Demonology
Marina Montesano, “Malgigi scongiurò quello una notte”. Diavoli e magia nella letteratura del Quattrocento
Julien Véronèse, Magie et conjuration des démons, entre textes et procès (fin du Moyen Âge)
Alessia Belli, Girolamo Visconti, Bernardo Rategno e la trattatistica nell’Italia settentrionale tra tardo medioevo e prima età moderna
2. Late Medieval Cases
Martine Ostorero, Miracle de hostie, vol magique et cornemuse: la culture démonologique de l’inquisiteur François Granet (1481-1494)
Maxime Gelly-Perbellini, title t.b.c.
Pau Castell Granados, The Origins of Witchcraft in 15th-century Europe: the Pyrenean Paradigm
3. Alps and Liguria
Silvia Bertolin, Gli inizi della persecuzione della stregoneria nella Valle d’Aosta
Giulia Lovison, L’inquisitore fra’ Modesto Scrofeo e la caccia alle streghe di Sondrio (1523)
Paolo Portone-Valerio Giorgetta, La lunga caccia nella diocesi di Como tra continuità, perplessità e resistenze: due casi esemplari (XVI-XVII secolo)
Paolo Fontana, Evocazione demoniaca e pratiche di guarigione. Note su alcuni aspetti della stregoneria a Genova (secoli XVI-XIX)
Friday 4 October
4. Early Modern Inquisitions
Michaela Valente, “Io non so fare sortileggio, né incanto, né maleficio di sorte alcuna”: la voce delle presunte streghe nell’Italia dell’età moderna
Lu A. Homza, Vague Policies and Risky Outcomes: Spanish Inquisitors and Witch Suspects, 1500-1700
José Pedro Paiva, Misconceptions of the Early Modern Portuguese Inquisition: Jurema, Mandingas and Asian Witches
María Jesús Zamora Calvo, El diablo allende los mares: tratados demonológicos en Nueva España
5. Continental Europe: Contexts and Comparisons
Rita Voltmer, Urban Witchcraft Trials in the Framework of Social, Economic, Political, and Religious Conflicts. A Comparison
Ildikó Sz. Kristóf, Imported or Local „Witchcraft”? Demonologies, Heresies and Witch-Hunting in the Kingdom of Hungary, 16th-18th Centuries
Louise Kallestrup, Witchcraft and the Godly State: The Case of Denmark
Johannes Dillinger, Germany-the Mother of the Witches
Dries Vanysacker, No Holy Office-tribunals; so no Church-involvement at All? Witch Trials in the Low Countries (1450-1685)
Maryse Simon, La sorcellerie en Lorraine et sa répression par Nicolas Rémy indûment surnommé le Torquemada lorrain
6. The 19th Century
William Pooley, Inquisitorial Justice after the Inquisition? French Witchcraft in the Long 19th Century
Conclusions: Matteo Duni