Martin del Rio

P. G. Maxwell-Stuart is a Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Aberdeen and an Honorary Lecturer in the Department of History in the University of St. Andrews

• IntroductionPrologue, explaining why this treatise has been difficult to write, but why it was necessary to do so.Book 1: Magic in general, and Natural and Artificial Magic in Particular.Book 2: Magic involving Evil SpiritsBook 3: Harmful Magic and SuperstitionBook 4: DivinationBook 5: The Duty of Judges in dealing with Workers of Harmful Magic; or, The Judicial Process in Relation to the Crime of Magic.Book 6: The Duty of a Confessor

'This volume represents an alliance between two meticulous bibliophiles, the demonologist del Rio and his editor Maxwell-Stuart, who has patiently identified most of the ancient, medieval and early modern texts upon which he relied for most of his source material. This translation makes accessible a major trove of source material as well as a famous polemical work.' Professor Ronald Hutton, Ecclesiastical History