Studies in the History and Method of Science, vol. 1 (of 2)
Religion
Studies in the History and Method of Science, vol. 1 (of 2)
Medicine -- History; Science -- History
Wickersheimer, Ernest, _Figures médico-astrologiques des neuvième,
dixième et onzième siècles_, 27 _n._ 2, 38 _n._ 3;
_La médecine astrologique dans les almanachs populaires du XX^e
siècle_, 39 _n._ 2;
_L’Anatomie de Guido de Vigevano, médecin de la reine Jeanne de
Bourgogne_, 87 _n._ 3.
Wiesbaden: _see_ Manuscripts.
Wille, Professor, 55 _n._
William of Saliceto, 92, 93, 105.
Wilson, Rev. H. A., 55 _n._
Winds, relation of, to the elements, 25-7, 34.
Winternitz, _Diätetisches Sendschreiben des Maimonides_, 226 _n._ 3.
Wiseman, Cardinal, 178.
Witchcraft and witch mania, 189-224;
bewitchment of animals, 193, 197, 218, 220;
burnings for witchcraft, 190, 194, 196, 197, 200, 202-8, 213, 221;
children tortured and burnt, 200, 201, 208;
confessions, 195, 197-200, 204, 205, 207, 209-13, 219, 220, 223;
‘delation’, 202;
denunciations, 190, 192, 201, 202, 206, 209-13;
executions, 190, 194, 195, 206, 208;
informers, 202;
inquisitions (or witch-trials), 192, 196, 197, 201-13;
nature of the witch mania, 190, 191, 199, 205;
number of victims, 208;
opposition of Dr. John Weyer to persecution for witchcraft, 189,
200, 207, 214-24;
popular beliefs concerning witchcraft and demonology, 190-3,
195-7, 199, 217;
results of scientific investigations, 223;
‘sabbat’, the, 195-9;
sexual orgies, 190, 193, 196, 198, 199, 209, 211, 216;
torture of victims, 190, 192, 195, 200, 202-13;
water test, 207, 219;
witch-dances, 196, 197, 199, 210, 211, 216, 221;
witch-hunters, 189, 192, 195-8, 200, 201, 205-8, 214, 219, 220;
witch-ointments, 199, 216;
witnesses, 202, 205, 209-12.
Withington, E. T.: Dr. John Weyer and the Witch Mania, 189-224.
Wolsey, Cardinal, 174.
Worde, Wynkyn de, printer, 85 fig. 4.
Wrobel, J., cited, 19 _n._ 2, 37 _n._ 1, 38 _n._ 1.
Würzburg, witch-burning in the bishopric of, 194, 195, 204, 208.
Wüstenfeld, H. F., _Geschichte d. arabischen Aerzte_, 227 and _n._ 1,
228 _nn._ 3, 5, 229.
Yorke, Sir Joseph, 230.
Ypres, John de, quotation from the account books of, 170.
_Zeitschrift der Morgenländischen Gesellschaft_, 226 _n._ 10.
_Zeitschrift für kirchliche Wissenschaft und kirchliches Leben_,
5 _n._ 3.
Zelus Dei, account and illumination of, 54, plate XXIV (_b_).
Zerbis, de: _see_ Gerbi, Gabriele de.
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] _Vita Sanctae Hildegardis auctoribus Godefrido et Theodorico
monachis_, lib. iii, cap. 1. The work has been frequently reprinted and
is in Migne, _Patrologia Latina_, vol. 197, col. 91 ff. This volume
will be quoted here simply as ‘Migne’.
[2] Migne, col. 119.
[3] The erroneous statement in some of her biographies that she
journeyed to Paris is based on a misunderstanding.
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