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

Timothy D. Walker

433 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

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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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