Infamous Books
Infamous Books Many infamous books have been written that triggered great devastation and havoc . Here are some examples: 1240-1253: the Benedictine Monk Matthaeus Parisiensis (Matthew Paris / died 1259) wrote the Chronica Majora in which he describes at length the enormous threat emanating from the Jews, who were regarded as incarnation of the Antichrist 1484: Summis desiderantes affectibus ( Desiring with supreme ardor) was a papal bull condemning witchcraft 1486: Hexenhammer (Hammer of the Witches / Malleus Maleficarum: was a treatise on witchcraft and endorsed extermination of witches (and heretics) 1543: Martin Luther expressed his hatred of (non-converted) Jews in the publication Von den Juden und ihren Lügen (On the Jews and their Lies), propagating some ‘solutions’ for this ‘problem’: to burn down Jewish synagogues and schools and warn people against them to refuse to let Jews own houses among Christians to take away Jewish religious writing...