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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Cameron Euan"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Enchanted Europe : superstition, reason, and religion, 1250-1750 / / Euan Cameron"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Oxford, England ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"0-19-155526-6"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-282-50194-1"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9786612501944"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (xii, 473 pages)"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"398.2094"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Superstition - Europe - History"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Occultism - Europe - History"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Europe Religion"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Europe Civilization Medieval influences"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Europe Social life and customs"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Contents; Introduction; PART I. DISCERNING AND CONTROLLING INVISIBLE FORCES: THE IMAGE OF 'SUPERSTITION' IN THE LITERATURE; 1. The Problems of Pre-modern Life; 2. A Densely Populated Universe; 3. Helpful Performances: The Uses of Ritual; 4. Insight and Foresight: Techniques of Divination; PART II. THE LEARNED RESPONSE TO SUPERSTITIONS IN THE MIDDLE AGES: ANGELS AND DEMONS; 5. The Patristic and Early Medieval Heritage; 6. Scholastic Demonology in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries; 7. The Demonological Reading of Superstitions in the Late Middle Ages: Areas of Consensus"]
[{"$nulls":4},"8. The Demonological Reading of Superstitions in the Late Middle Ages: Areas of Difference and Disagreement; 9. The Pastoral Use of the Scholastic Critique of Superstitions; PART III. SUPERSTITIONS IN CONTROVERSY: RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATIONS; 10. Some Renaissance Christian Humanists and 'Superstition'; 11. Magic, the Fallen World, and Fallen Humanity: Martin Luther on the Devil and Superstitions; 12. Prodigies, Providences, and Possession: The Sixteenth-Century Protestant Context; 13. The Protestant Critique of Consecrations: Catholicism as Superstition"]
[{"$nulls":4},"14. The Reformed Doctrine of Providence and the Transformation of the Devil; 15. Reformed Catholicism: Purifying Sources, Defending "]
[{"$nulls":4},"Traditions; PART IV. THE COSMOS CHANGES SHAPE: SUPERSTITION IS REDEFINED; 16. Demonology Becomes an Open Subject in the Seventeenth Century; 17. Defending the 'Invisible World': The Campaign against 'Saducism'; 18. Towards the Enlightenment; Notes; Bibliography; Index"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","Since the dawn of history people have used charms and spells to try to control their environment, and forms of divination to try to foresee the otherwise unpredictable chances of life. Many of these techniques were called 'superstitious' by educated elites. For centuries religious believers used 'superstition' as a term of abuse to denounce another religion that they thought inferior, or to criticize their fellow-believers for practising their faith 'wrongly'. From the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, scholars argued over what 'superstition' was, how to identify it, and how to persuade people"]