Daemonologie
Sign in to saveDaemonologie, In Forme of a Dialogue, Divided into three Books, usually known as Daemonologie, is as a philosophical dissertation by James VI and I on contemporary necromancy and the historical relationships between the various methods of divination used from ancient black magic, first published in 1597. It was reprinted in 1603 when James took the throne of England. The widespread consensus is that King James wrote Dæmonologie in response to sceptical publications such as Reginald Scot's The Discoverie of Witchcraft.
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- Book.name
- Dæmonologie
- Book.image
- File:James I; Daemonologie, in forme of a dialogue. Title page. Wellcome M0014280.jpg
- Book.caption
- Title page of a 1603 reprinting
- Book.author
- James VI and I
- Book.country
- England
- Book.language
- English
- Book.series
- 3 books and a news pamphlet in one volume.
- Book.genre
- Occult, religion, philosophy, dissertation, Socratic dialogue
- Book.release_date
- 1597
- Book.media_type
- Book.preceded_by
- Newes from Scotland (1591)
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- James I; Daemonologie, in forme of a dialogue. Title page. Wellcome M0014280.jpg
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- Daemonologie
- title
- King James, the First: Dæmonologie (1597). : James I, King of England, 1566-1625 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
- subtitle
- In Forme of a Dialogve, Diuided into three books
- publication date
- 1597-00-00
- first line
- Philomathes. I am surely verie glad to haue mette with you this daye, for I am of opinion, that ye can better resolue me of some thing, wherof I stand in great doubt, nor anie other whom-with I could haue mette.
- last line
- Epistemon. I pray God that so be to. But the causes ar ouer manifest, that makes them to be so rife. For the greate wickednesse of the people on the one parte, procures this horrible defection, whereby God justlie punisheth sinne, by a greater iniquitie. And on the other part, the consummation of the worlde, and our deliuerance drawing neare, makes Sathan to rage the more in his instruments, knowing his kingdome to be so neare an ende. And so fare‐well for this time.
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- Book Two
- Book Three
- ''Newes from Scotland''
- Cultural significance
- See also
- References
- Further reading
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Daemonologie, In Forme of a Dialogue, Divided into three Books, usually known as Daemonologie, is as a philosophical dissertation by James VI and I on contemporary necromancy and the historical relationships between the various methods of divination used from ancient black magic, first published in 1597. It was reprinted in 1603 when James took the throne of England. The widespread consensus is that King James wrote Dæmonologie in response to sceptical publications such as Reginald Scot's The Discoverie of Witchcraft.
Dæmonologie included a study of demonology and the methods demons used to bother troubled men. The book frames witchcraft as "treason against God" and endorses the practice of witch hunting.