The realities of witchcraft and popular magic in early modern Europe : culture, cognition, and everyday life / / Edward Bever
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| Autore: |
Bever Edward Watts Morton
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| Titolo: |
The realities of witchcraft and popular magic in early modern Europe : culture, cognition, and everyday life / / Edward Bever
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina: | 133.4/3094 |
| Soggetto topico: | Witchcraft - Europe - History |
| Magic - Europe - History | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 504-557) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | The varieties of maleficium -- Maleficium and society -- The devil in the Duchy of Wurttemberg -- Witch dances and witch salves -- Sorcery, satanism, and shamanism -- Divination and prophesy -- Beneficent manipulative magic -- Magic and society. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Exploring the elements of reality in early modern witchcraft and popular magic, through a combination of detailed archival research and broad-ranging interdisciplinary analyses, this book complements and challenges existing scholarship, and offers unique insights into this murky aspect of early modern history. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The realities of witchcraft and popular magic in early modern Europe |
| ISBN: | 1-282-05026-5 |
| 9786612050268 | |
| 0-230-58211-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910813707003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic.