ABSTRACT
Although the evidence is less good for the Middle Ages, it is likely that medieval men who believed themselves bewitched tried similar solutions. The boundaries of the canon law of magic impotence that were set by the twelfth-and thirteenth-century canonists remained largely in place for the rest of the Middle Ages. Despite the doubts of writers such as Cardinalis about whether Hincmar of Rheims's ruling was valid, however, the majority of canonists did support annulments in cases of magic impotence, and they devised a solution to explain the discrepancy between Hincmar's ruling and Gregory II's. One anonymous gloss on the Decretum said that even though Hincmar was ignorant, the church still followed his advice and permitted remarriages in cases of magic impotence. The problems of interpretation had to be solved first, but once they were, the law, at least as regards magic and impotence, became part of a wider drive to reform and educate the laity.
