The Middle Ages [[electronic resource] /] / Karen Jolly, Catharina Raudvere & Edward Peters
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| Autore: |
Jolly Karen Louise
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| Titolo: |
The Middle Ages [[electronic resource] /] / Karen Jolly, Catharina Raudvere & Edward Peters
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| Pubblicazione: | London, : Athlone Press, c2002 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (295 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 133.43094 |
| Soggetto topico: | Witchcraft - Europe - History |
| Magic - Europe - History | |
| Magic - Religious aspects - Christianity | |
| Altri autori: |
RaudvereCatharina
PetersEdward <1936->
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | CONTENTS; Introduction; PART 1: MEDIEVAL MAGIC: DEFINITIONS, BELIEFS , PRACTICES; Chapter 1: Definitions of Magic; Chapter 2: Beliefs about Magic: Conceptual Shifts and the Nature of the Evidence; Chapter 3: The Practice of Magic: Popular and Courtly Traditions; PART 2: TROLLDÓMR IN EARLY MEDIEVAL SCANDINAVIA; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Concept of Trolldómr: Mentalities and Beliefs; Chapter 2: Trolldómr Rituals: Practice and Performance; Chapter 3: The Legal Code: Law and Trial; Bibliographical Note; Notes |
| PART 3: THE MEDIEVAL CHURCH AND STATE ON SUPERSTITION, MAGIC AND WITCHCRAFT: FROM AUGUSTINE TO THE SIXTEENTH CENTURYChapter 1: Superstition and Magic from Augustine to Isidore of Seville; Chapter 2: Superstition and Magic in the Germanic Law Collections; Chapter 3: Early Canon Law and Carolingian Legislation to 1100; Chapter 4: The Legal and Theological Literature of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries; Chapter 5: Political Sorcery at the Turn of the Fourteenth Century; Chapter 6: Sorcerer and Witch; Chapter 7: Superstition, Magic and Witchcraft on the Eve of the Reformation; Bibliography | |
| Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Between the age of St. Augustine and the sixteenth century reformations magic continued to be both a matter of popular practice and of learned inquiry. This volume deals with its use in such contexts as healing and divination and as an aspect of the knowledge of nature's occult virtues and secrets. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Middle Ages |
| ISBN: | 1-283-20074-0 |
| 9786613200747 | |
| 0-567-57446-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910789518303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Athlone history of witchcraft and magic in Europe ; ; v. 3.
Witchcraft and magic in Europe ; ; v. 3.