 Protestant and Catholic rivalled each other in the madness of the hour. Witches were burned no longer in ones and twos, but in scores and hundreds. A bishop of Geneva is said to have burned five hundred within three months, a bishop of Bamburg six hundred,...  A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages - Page 549by Henry Charles Lea - 1887Full view - About this book
 | Henry Charles Lea - 1887 - 756 pages
...have burned five hundred within three months, a bishop of Bamburg six hundred, a bishop of "VViirzburg nine hundred. Eight hundred were condemned, apparently...matter of course. The spring of 1586 was tardy in the Rhinelands and the cold was prolonged until June : this could only be the result of witchcraft, and... | |
 | Henry Charles Lea - 1887 - 766 pages
...hundreds. A bishop of Geneva is said to have burned five hundred within three months, a bishop of Bamburg six hundred, a bishop of Wiirzburg nine hundred. Eight...intervention of Satan, through the instrumentality of his \vorshippers, become a part of the unconscious process of thought, that any unusual operation of nature... | |
 | Albert Tracy Huntington - 1909 - 298 pages
...have burned five hundred within three months, a bishop of Hamburg six hundred, a bishop of Wiirtzburg nine hundred; eight hundred were condemned, apparently in one body, by the Senate of Savoy. Paramo boasts that in a century and a half from the commencement of the Sect, in 1404, the Holy Office... | |
 | Winfield S. Nevins - 1916 - 370 pages
...have burned five hundred within three months, a bishop of Hamburg six hundred, a bishop of Wurzburge nine hundred. Eight hundred were condemned, apparently in one body, by the senate of Savoy. In a century and a half in Paramo following 1404, the Holy Office had burned at least 30,000 witches.... | |
 | Henry Charles Lea - 1922 - 758 pages
...hundreds. A bishop of Geneva is said to have burned five hundred within three months, a bishop of Bamburg six hundred, a bishop of Wiirzburg nine hundred. Eight...matter of course. The spring of 1586 was tardy in the Rhinelands and the cold was prolonged until June : this could only be the result of witchcraft, and... | |
 | Jane Caputi - 1987 - 270 pages
...have burned five hundred within three months, a bishop of Bamberg six hundred, a bishop of Wurzburg, nine hundred. Eight hundred were condemned, apparently in one body, by the Senate of Savoy. Henry Charles Lea14 This period was the age of supreme despair for woman.. . .When for "witches" we... | |
 | Henry Charles Lea - 2005 - 749 pages
...have burned ave hundred within three months, a bishop of Bamburg six hundred, a bishop of "Wuraburg nine hundred. Eight hundred were condemned, apparently...part of the unconscious process of thought, that any unnsual operation of nature was attributed to them as a matter of course. The spring of 1586 was tardy... | |
 | Werner J. Einstadter, Stuart Henry - 2006 - 446 pages
...have burned five hundred within three months; a bishop of Bamberg six hundred, a bishop of Wurzburg nine hundred. Eight hundred were condemned, apparently in one body by the senate of Savoy." (Hibbert, 1963, quoting HC Lea, 1906) As Pfohl (1985: 25) explains, burning also "evoked an image of... | |
 | 854 pages
...hundreds. A bishop of Geneva is said to have burned five hundred within three months; a bishop of Bamberg six hundred, a bishop of Wiirzburg nine hundred. Eight...condemned, apparently in one body, by the Senate of Savoy Paramo [in his history of the Inquisition] boasts that in a century and a half from the commencement... | |
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