The Good Angel
When Martin Luther throws down the gauntlet, what's a good Jesuit to do? In this episode, our story spans the lives of three men, two continents, and one hundred years as we explore Counter-Reformation Europe's most influential witch-hunting manual: Martín del Río's Magical Investigations.
Researched, written, and produced by Corinne Wieben, with original music by Purple Planet.
Music
J. S. Bach - Goldberg Variations, BWV. 988 - Variation 1 - Performed by Shelly Katz
Purple Planet - Deep Space Exploration
Purple Planet - Red Mist
Purple Planet - Tormented
Purple Planet - Sense of Loss
Purple Planet - Shadowlands
Sources
Primary
Del Rio, Martin Antoine. Investigations into Magic. Edited and translated by P. G. Maxwell-Stuart. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000.
Ignatius of Loyola. Spiritual Exercises. Translated by Elder Mullan. Sacred Texts.
Secondary
Brady, Thomas A., Jr. “The Entropy of Coercion in the Holy Roman Empire: Jews, Heretics, Witches.” In Diversity and Dissent: Negotiating Religious Difference in Central Europe, 1500-1800. Edited by Howard Louthan, Gary B. Cohen, and Franz A. J. Szabo, 92-113. New York: Berghahn, 2011.
Cambers, Andrew. “Demonic Possession, Literacy and 'Superstition' in Early Modern England.” Past & Present 202 (Feb. 2009), pp. 3-35.
Cook, Karoline P. Forbidden Passages: Muslims and Moriscos in Colonial Spanish America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
Folsom, Raphael Brewster. The Yaquis and the Empire: Violence, Spanish Imperial Power, and Native Resilience in Colonial Mexico. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014.
Keitt, Andrew. “The Miraculous Body of Evidence: Visionary Experience, Medical Discourse, and the Inquisition in Seventeenth-Century Spain.” The Sixteenth Century Journal 36. No. 1 (Spring, 2005), pp. 77-96.
Keitt, Andrew. “Religious Enthusiasm, the Spanish Inquisition, and the Disenchantment of the World.” Journal of the History of Ideas 65. No. 2 (Apr. 2004), pp. 231- 250.
Machielsen, Jan. Martin Delrio: Scholarship and Demonology in the Counter-Reformation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Waite, Gary K. Eradicating the Devil's Minions: Anabaptists and Witches in Reformation Europe, 1535–1600. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007.
Wickersham, Jane K. Rituals of Prosecution: The Roman Inquisition and the Prosecution of Philo-Protestants in Sixteenth-Century Italy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.
