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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451761003321

Titolo

Christian demonology and popular mythology [[electronic resource] ] : demons, spirits and witches / / edited by Gabor Klaniczay and Eva Pocs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hungary, : Central European University Press, 2006

ISBN

978-615-5211-01-0

9786155211010

978-6-15521-101-0

615-5211-01-9

1-281-26867-4

9786611268671

1-4294-1344-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 p.)

Collana

Demons, spirits, witches ; ; v.2

Altri autori (Persone)

KlaniczayGábor

PócsÉva

Disciplina

133.4094

Soggetti

Demonology

Witchcraft

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; Contents of the first and the third volume; Introduction; Demons in Krakow, and Image Magic in a Magical Handbook; "A Wall of Bronze " or Demons versus Saints: Whose victory?; An Iconographical Approach to Representations of the Devil in Medieval Hungary; Talking with Demons.  Early Modern Theories and Practice; Protestant Devil Figures in Hungary; The Devil and Birthgiving; Serpent - damsels and dragon - slayers: Overlapping divinities in a medieval tradition; Jewish, Noble, German, or Peasant? -The Devil in Early Modern Poland

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