Spelling out the book’s importance, the conjurers of a new study reveal that Malleus Maleficarum – aided by the invention of ...

A new study in Theory and Society shows that the printing of witch-hunting manuals, particularly the Malleus maleficarum in 1487, played a crucial role in spreading persecution across Europe.

3. There was a best-selling handbook on how to hunt witches Malleus Maleficarum (which meant the Hammer of Witches) was published in 1487 by a German monk called Heinrich Kramer. It argued that ...