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Podcast: Playtime with WC Turck
Episode: Art, Science and Witchcraft, the publishing of Malleus Maleficarum, 1487
Description: On this Episode of Playtime, I bring you a bit from my forthcoming book, A History of Light for the Artist. In this chapter I explore the power of the printed word. In the first part I spoke about the darker side of publishing and propaganda through the witchcraft hysteria fomented by the release of Malleus Maleficarum in 1487, the second most popular book in the Middle Ages after the Luther Bible. There are lessons here regarding zealotry, propaganda, misogyny, and the manipulation of truth for prurient and nefarious interests, which informs our modern society. The time period represented in...