Doctors, Folk Medicine and the Inquisition: The Repression of Magical Healing in Portugal During the Enlightenment by Timothy Walker

Doctors, Folk Medicine and the Inquisition: The Repression of Magical Healing in Portugal During the Enlightenment

Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World

Timothy Walker

433 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction computer science mathematics psychology science
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Inquisition trials for sorcery and witchcraft in Portugal reached a late crescindo (1715 to 1755). This study of those events focuses on the Inquisition's role in prosecuting and discrediting popular healers (called saludadores or curandeiros), wh...

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