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Title: The witches of Malta : the Catholic Church, the Inquisition, and the gendering of witchcraft in seventeenth century Malta
Authors: Cassar, Carmel
Keywords: Witchcraft -- Malta -- History
Malta -- History -- Knights of Malta, 1530-1798
Inquisition -- Malta
Reformation
Counter-Reformation
Issue Date: 2008
Publisher: University of Malta. Institute of Tourism Studies
Citation: Cassar, C. (2008). The witches of Malta: the Catholic Church, the Inquisition, and the gendering of witchcraft in seventeenth century Malta. Welcome: journal of the Institute of Tourism Studies, 2, 16-27.
Abstract: Witchcraft in Malta between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries was treated as a religious offence and it fell under the jurisdiction of the Inquisition rather than that of the secular authority. In this respect it differed from most areas of Europe. In England for example, witchcraft persecution was predominantly in the hands of the secular authority, and witches were punished for the crime they had supposedly committed by means of their witchcraft rather than for any heretical belief implicit in the methods they used in the process.
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/42328
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