The Malleus Maleficarum (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781021167590)

An infamous treatise on witchcraft and its detection, published in 1487. Summers' translation presents the original Latin text alongside modern commentary and analysis, revealing the ways in which witch-hunting became a tool of social control and persecution during the Middle Ages.

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