eprintid: 32999
rev_number: 13
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datestamp: 2023-03-08 08:09:29
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type: article
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creators_name: Perplies, Helge
title: Americana bei Jean Bodin und Johann Fischart, Hexen bei Jean de Léry
subjects: ddc-200
subjects: ddc-800
divisions: i-90100
note: Dieser Beitrag ist aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich. *** This publication is freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
abstract: 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.
date: 2022
publisher: de Gruyter
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00032999
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1515/scipo-2022-001
ppn_swb: 1841938602
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-329991
language: ger
bibsort: PERPLIESHEAMERICANAB2022
full_text_status: public
publication: Scientia Poetica
volume: 26
number: 1
place_of_pub: Berlin [u.a.]
pagerange: 1-18
issn: 1431-5041 (Druck-Ausg.); 1868-9418 (Online-Ausg.)
edition: Zweitveröffentlichung
citation:   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.)     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/32999/1/10.1515_scipo-2022-001.pdf