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Article: Le Pape et les sorciers: Une Consultation de Jean XXII sur la magie en 1320 (Manuscrit B. A. V. Borghese 348)
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- January 1, 2008
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Boureau, Alain, ed. Le Pape et les sorciers: Une Consultation de Jean XXII sur la magie en 1320 (Manuscrit B. A. V. Borghese 348). Rome: Ãcole Française de Rome, 2004. Pp. 1iii; 143.
Anyone interested in the origins of witch persecution will welcome Boureau's new tide. This scholar edited ten consultations of Pope John XXII, leading to a papal bull which ended almost four centuries of quasitolerance in matters of magic, an attitude spelled out by the Canon Episcopi (tenth century) and even Thomas Aquinas (1225-74). The bull Super illius Specula (c. 1326-27) decreed that magic was heresy and that sorcerers should be persecuted as heretics by the Inquisition.
In his introduction, Boureau ...