{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Broad History","title":"Witch Hunts | Bonus | The incel manifesto that fuelled the witch panics (with Eleanor Janega)","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/a35b96a3\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":604,"description":"To listen to this episode in full, join at broadhistory.com/membership.\nMedieval historian and podcaster Eleanor Janega and I go deep on the Malleus Maleficarum, the bonkers demonology treatise written by a seriously misogynistic German monk in 1486, which laid out a lot of the \"intellectual theory\" behind the witch hunts.\nIn this episode:\nThe \"worst century to be alive in\" or how 14th century troubles gave rise to the witch hunts\nThe Western Schism, the Reformation and a spiritual arms race between Catholics and Protestants\nHeinrich Kramer, a \"stupid man's idea of a smart man\"\nHow the Malleus Maleficarum was received and why it (eventually) became popular\nWhy Christian countries killed more women\nPre- and post-Christian misogyny (aka there are no good eras for women)\nWas witchfinder general Matthew Hopkins a serial killer?\n🇬🇧 Buy the book in the UK\n🇺🇸 Buy the book in the US\n(Affiliate bookshop.org links support Broad History and indie bookstores.)","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/BR4UAONFPtQAbjdCzu8sEpojROQm7IqAM92ijb46AcU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81OTBh/ODM0NDQ4YTcwNzVh/NmYzNDk2NWU3NmIz/MWJiZi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}