26 e.g. Ch. Molinier, L’Inquisition dans le Midi de la France an xiiie et au xive siècle, Paris, 1880; L. Tanon, Histoire des tribunaux de l’Inquisition en France, Paris, 1893.
27 Lamothe-Langon, La dame du comptoir, Paris, 1844, p. 4 of the cover.
28 Cf. Switzer, op. cit., p. 65.
29 On Sermet see the article in Michaud’s Biographie universelle.
30 Le Père Sermet, “Recherches historiques sur l’Inquisition de Toulouse”, in Mémoires de l’Académie royale des sciences, inscriptions et belles-lettres de Toulouse, vol. IV (1790), p. 46. The documents mentioned by Sermet as having been discovered by the Abbé Magi were published in the same volume; they refer to the year 1245 only.
31 Lamothe-Langon, Histoire de l’Inquisition, vol. I, Introduction, p. xxxvi.
32 Philippus a Limborch, Historia Inquisitionis, Amsterdam, 1692. The Liber Sententiarum is at pp. 334 seq. For the attendance at the sermon of Bernard Guidonis see p. 334.
33 G. La Faille, Annales de la Ville de Toulouse, Toulouse, vol. I, 1687, p. 73.
34 J. J. Percin, op. cit., p. no. Cf. p. 102, where the name of Pierre Guidonis is associated with a supposed letter from King Philip VI, dated 1334. The letter derives, through La Faille, from Bardin, and is almost certainly spurious. Percin was in any case the first to connect it, quite arbitrarily, with the name of Pierre Guidonis.
35 Lamothe-Langon, op. cit., vol. III, p. 231. Percin also supplies Lamothe-Langon with other information about the names and dates of inquisitors, much of it wrong.
36 Pierre de Lancre, Tableaux de l’Inconstance des Mauvais Anges, Paris, 1612, especially pp. 66–75, 89–90, 128-31, 140, 145, 175, 195-8, 216-17.
37 On Georgel see the article in Michaud, Biographie universelle. The name is so uncommon that no other Georgel appears in Michaud. His book is entitled Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire des événemens de la fin du dix-huitième siècle, depuis 1760 jusqu’en 1806–1810. On Delort see the article in Rabbe and Boisjolin, Biographie universelle et portative des contemporains, vol. II, Paris, 1834. The name is so uncommon that no Delort appears in Michaud’s Biographie universelle. Unlike Lamothe-Langon, Joseph Delort was clearly a trained historian with some competence in paleography. Cf. his Essai critique sur l’histoire de Charles VII..., Paris, 1824, p. 2, and the “pièces justificatives” at pp. 173 seq.
38 J. J. von Görres, Die christliche Mystik, vol. III, Regensburg, 1840, pp. 54-5.
39 W. G. Soldan, Geschichte der Hexenprozesse, Stuttgart and Tübingen, 1843, p. 189.
40 Janus (pseudonym of Döllinger), Der Papst, Munich, 1869, pp. 275-6; Döllinger, Das Papstthum, Munich, 1892, p. 126 (revised edition of the above).
41 J. Hansen, Quellen, pp. 64-6; Zauberwahn, pp. 334-7.
42 Cf. J. L. J. Van de Kamp, Bartolus de Saxoferrato 1313–1357, Amsterdam, 1936 (in Dutch), pp. 35 seq.
43 loannes Baptista Zilettus, Consilia seu responsa ad causas criminales, vol. I, Venice, 1566. Further editions of the collection were published at Venice in 1572 and at Frankfort on Main in 1578. I have used the Venice edition of 1572.
44 The thirty-four additional consilia figure in vol. X of the Omnia Opera in the Venice editions of 1590, 1602 and 1615.
45 Hansen, Quellen, p. 56, n. 1, suggested that Ioannes de Plotis must be a misreading of Ioannes Visconti, who was bishop of Novara from 1331 to 1342.
46 For consilia dealing with the de Plotis family: in Ziletti, Consilia ad causas criminales (1572), consilia v, vi, vii and viii; in Bartolo, Omnia Opera, vol. X, Venice, 1602, pp. 183 seq., additional consilia i, ii, iii, iv, vii, viii, ix, xi; in Ziletti, Consilia matrimonialia, Venice, 1563, consilia lxxxviii and lxxxix.
47 Bartolo, Omnia Opera, p. 185, additional consilium iv.
48 Ziletti, Consilia matrimonialia, pp. 350-2, consilium lxxxix.
49 Bartolo, Omnia Opera, p. 187, consilium vii.
50 Ibid., p. 183, consilium i.
51 Ibid., p. 184, consilium iv.
52 Ibid., p. 189, consilium viii.
53 On Giovanni Battista Piotto see C. Morbio, Storia della Città e Diocesi di Novara, Milan, 184J, p. 229, and A. Rusconi et al., Monografie Novaresi, Novara, 1877, pp. 51-2.
54 Examples are in an earlier collection by Ziletti, Criminalia consilia atque responsa, vol. I, Venice, 1559, pp. 289–312, consilia cviii and cix. See also the following Note.
55 Ziletti, Consilia matrimonialia, pp. 292-6, consilium lxxxvii; Ioannes Baptista Plotus, Consilia sive responsa, Novara, 1578, pp. 78–81, consilium xv.
56 In Ziletti, Consilia... ad causas criminales (1572), p. 158.
57 Bernard of Como, Tractatus de strigiis, Milan, 1566 (as appendix to the author’s Lucerna Inquisitorum). The tract is reprinted, from a later edition, in Hansen’s Quellen, pp. 279-84. Hansen’s dating of around 1508 is altogether plausible, and other suggestions that have been made — for instance, the 1480s — do not fit with what is known of Bernard’s life.
58 Cf. C. Cantù, Storia della Città e Diocesi di Como, 3rd rev. edn., vol. I, Como, 1899, pp. 477-85.
59 For an outline of Rategno’s biography see Hansen, Quellen, pp. 279-80. For his reputation as a witch-hunter see the Latin verses by Benedetto Giovio, of Como, quoted by Cantù, op. cit., p. 485. They were written before 1529.
1 Cf. E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Witchcraft, oracles and magic among the Azande, Oxford, 1937, pp. 21, 387. It is now recognized that the distinction is not as absolute in all African societies as amongst the Azande.
2 Gregory of Tours, Historia Francorum, lib. V, cap. xxxix, xl; lib. VI, cap. xxxv.
3 For the early Middle Ages see Elisabeth Blum, Das staatliche und kirchliche Recht des Frankenreichs in seiner Stellung zum Dämon- Zauber- und Hexenwesen, Paderborn, 1936; and cf. H. Brunner, Deutsche Rechtsgeschichte, vol. I, pp. 678-81, Leipzig, 1887. Edith Kiessling, Zauberei in den germanischen Volks-rechten, Jena, 1941, is influenced by Nazi ideology and is also unreliable in its handling of facts.