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Cover: 9783030767679 | Building Magic | Ritual and Re-enchantment in Post-Medieval Structures

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Beschreibung

This book redresses popular interpretations of concealed objects, enigmatically discovered within the fabric of post-medieval buildings. A wide variety of objects have been found up chimneybreasts, bricked up in walls, and concealed within recesses: old shoes, mummified cats, horse skulls, pierced hearts, to name only some. The most common approach to these finds is to apply a one-size-fits-all analysis and label them survivals and apotropaic (evil-averting) devices. This book reconsiders such interpretations, exploring the invention and reinvention of traditions regarding building magic. The title Building Magic therefore refers to more than practices that alter the fabric of buildings, but also to processes of building magic into our interpretations of the enigmatic material evidence and into our engagements with the buildings we inhabit and frequent.

Über den Autor

Owen Davies Is Professor of Social History at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. He has published widely on the history of witchcraft, magic, ghosts, and popular medicine, including most recently, A Supernatural War: Magic, Divination, and Faith During the First World War (2018).

Ceri Houlbrook is a Folklore and History Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. Her primary research interests are the material culture of ritual practices and popular beliefs, and contemporary folklore. She has previously published on the modern-day customs of coin-trees and love-locks.

Zusammenfassung

Explores the invention and reinvention of traditions regarding building magic

Redresses popular interpretations of concealed objects, discovered within the fabric of post-medieval buildings

Examines the variety of objects that have been found concealed, including old shoes, mummified cats and pierced hearts

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Folk science meets folk memory: Acoustics and illumination .- 2. Bodies: Mummified but not Ancient.- 3. Folk science meets folk memory: Acoustics and illumination .- 4. Sealing Memories.- 5. Seeking protection: Objects of power.- 6. Luck and wellbeing in the home.- 7. Curators and custodians of the revealed concealed.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Geschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	188
Reihe:	Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
Inhalt:	vii 179 S.
ISBN-13:	9783030767679
ISBN-10:	3030767671
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Houlbrook, Ceri Davies, Owen
Auflage:	1st ed. 2021
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
Maße:	210 x 148 x 11 mm
Von/Mit:	Ceri Houlbrook (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	11.09.2022
Gewicht:	0,251 kg

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