Demons and illness from antiquity to the early-modern period / / edited by Siam Bhayro and Catherine Rider

• Pubblicazione: Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill Nijhoff, , 2017; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (447 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 202.16
• Soggetto topico: Demonology - History; Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric
• Persona (resp. second.): BhayroSiam
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Siam Bhayro and Catherine Rider -- Shifting Alignments: The Dichotomy of Benevolent and Malevolent Demons in Mesopotamia / Gina Konstantopoulos -- The Natural and Supernatural Aspects of Fever in Mesopotamian Medical Texts / András Bácskay -- Illness as Divine Punishment: The Nature and Function of the Disease-Carrier Demons in the Ancient Egyptian Magical Texts / Rita Lucarelli -- Demons at Work in Ancient Mesopotamia / Lorenzo Verderame -- Demons and Illness in Second Temple Judaism: Theory and Practice / Ida Fröhlich -- Illness and Healing through Spell and Incantation in the Dead Sea Scrolls / David Hamidović -- Conceptualizing Demons in Late Antique Judaism / Gideon Bohak -- Oneiric Aggressive Magic: Sleep Disorders in Late Antique Jewish Tradition / Alessia Bellusci -- The Influence of Demons on the Human Mind according to Athenagoras and Tatian / Chiara Crosignani -- Demonic Anti-Music and Spiritual Disorder in the Life of Antony / Sophie Sawicka-Sykes -- Over-Eating Demoniacs in Late Antique Hagiography / Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe -- Miracles and Madness: Dispelling Demons in Twelfth-Century Hagiography / Anne E. Bailey -- Demons in Lapidaries? The Evidence of the Madrid ms Escorial, h.I.15 / M. Carolina Escobar Vargas -- The Melancholy of the Necromancer in Arnau de Vilanova’s Epistle against Demonic Magic / Sebastià Giralt -- Demons, Illness, and Spiritual Aids in Natural Magic and Image Magic / Lauri Ockenström -- Between Medicine and Magic: Spiritual Aetiology and Therapeutics in Medieval Islam / Liana Saif -- Demons, Saints, and the Mad in the Twelfth-Century Miracles of Thomas Becket / Claire Trenery -- The Post-Reformation Challenge to Demonic Possession / Harman Bhogal -- From A Discoverie to The Triall of Witchcraft: Doctor Cotta and Godly John / Pierre Kapitaniak -- Healing with Demons? Preternatural Philosophy and Superstitious Cures in Spanish Inquisitorial Courts / Bradley J. Mollmann -- Afterword: Pandaemonium / Peregrine Horden -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Texts.
• Sommario/riassunto: In many near eastern traditions, including Christianity, Judaism and Islam, demons have appeared as a cause of illness from ancient times until at least the early modern period. This volume explores the relationship between demons, illness and treatment comparatively. Its twenty chapters range from Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt to early modern Europe, and include studies of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. They discuss the relationship between ‘demonic’ illnesses and wider ideas about illness, medicine, magic, and the supernatural. A further theme of the volume is the value of treating a wide variety of periods and places, using a comparative approach, and this is highlighted particularly in the volume’s Introduction and Afterword. The chapters originated in an international conference held in 2013.
• Titolo autorizzato: Demons and illness from antiquity to the early-modern period
• ISBN: 90-04-33854-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792536603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Magical and religious literature of late antiquity ; ; Volume 5.