title: Americana bei Jean Bodin und Johann Fischart, Hexen bei Jean de Léry
creator: Perplies, Helge
subject: ddc-200
subject: 200 Religion
subject: ddc-800
subject: 800 Literature and rhetoric
description: The scope of Early Modern Demonology is universal, for the perceived threat of the devil is omnipresent, stretching through time and space. This article examines various utilizations of the description of central and south American indigenous peoples in demonological discourse. By means of three closely related examples, I will demonstrate the discursive conflation of deviant behavior in Europe and in America through comparisons and transferences: Jean Bodin’s Démonomanie des Sorciers (1580), its German translation by Johann Fischart (1581/1586), and Jean de Léry’s writings, especially his Histoire d’un voyage (1578/1585). Within this discursive nexus, Léry compares the American Indigenes to European Catholics, whereas Bodin compares them to European witches - and Fischart completes this argumentative triangle by calling for European Catholics to be held accountable for comparable acts in the same way as European witches.
publisher: de Gruyter
date: 2022
type: Article
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/32999/1/10.1515_scipo-2022-001.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00032999
identifier: https://doi.org/10.1515/scipo-2022-001
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-329991
identifier:   Perplies, Helge  (2022) Americana bei Jean Bodin und Johann Fischart, Hexen bei Jean de Léry.  Scientia Poetica, 26 (1).  pp. 1-18.  ISSN 1431-5041 (Druck-Ausg.); 1868-9418 (Online-Ausg.)     
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rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: ger