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This volume offers eighteen studies linked together by a common focus on the circulation and reception of motifs and beliefs in the field of folklore, magic, and witchcraft.
This volume offers eighteen studies linked together by a common focus on the circulation and reception of motifs and beliefs in the field of folklore, magic, and witchcraft.
Marina Montesano is Full Professor of Medieval History at the University of Messina, a fellow of Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, and a member of the scientific committee of the International Society for Cultural History (ISCH). Among her most recent monographs isClassical Culture and Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Italy (2018).
Introduction Part 1: Interpreting Folkloric Beliefs 1. The Tree of the Bourlémonts. Gendered Beliefs in Fairies and Their Transmission From Old To Young Women in Joan of Arc's Domrémy 2. The Rejuvenating Blood: Marsilio Ficino and the Witches 3. The Circulation and Exchange of Ideas, Myths, Legends, and Oral Traditions in the Witchcraft Trials of Italy 4. Between Hell and Paradise: The Legend of the Soul of the Emperor Trajan Part 2: Cultural Exchange among Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Communities 5. Artificial Creation of Human Life: Ibn Wäiyya as a Source of the Fut¿¿¿t al-makkiyya 6.Fragments of a Jewish Magical Tradition in the Library of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 7. Parallel Beliefs: Cultural Exchange between Jews and Christians on Magic and Witchcraft, and the Concerns of the Inquisition Part 3: Preachers as Mediators 8. Some Reports of Magic, Superstition, and Witchcraft in the Medieval Mirabilia Literature 9. 'Diabolical sorceries'. Vicent Ferrer's preaching and the emergence of the witchcraft construct(s) in early fifteenth-century Europe 10. Circulation of Magic and Folkloric Traditions in the Times of Antonino of Florence and Bernardino of Siena Part 4: The Cultural Interpretation of Objects 11. Against the Body of Christ: Exchanges and Cultural Upheavals in Early Modern Italy 12. The Natural and the Supernatural: Collecting, Interests, and Trials of the Nuncio Decio Francesco Vitelli in Venice, 1632-1643 13. The Witch Unravelled: How Pieter Bruegel the Elder Developed a Visual Code to Depict Witchcraft and Sorcery Part 5: Trading Ideas about Witchcraft 14. Ignorantia and Superstitio: A Discussion among Theologians and Inquisitors in the Sixteenth Century 15. The MP and the Astrologer: Rival Cultures of Witchcraft in the East Anglian Witch-hunt 16. A Witchcraft Triangle: Transmitting Witchcraft Ideas Across Early Modern Europe 17. The Shape of Evil: Familiars and Shapeshifting Witches in Seventeenth-Century Finnmark 18. Circulating Knowledge in an Enlightened Discourse. Eberhard David Hauber's Witchcraft Quarterly, 1738-1745
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
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Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
Genre: | Geschichte |
Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
Thema: | Lexika |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Seiten: | 302 |
Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
ISBN-13: | 9780367557676 |
ISBN-10: | 0367557673 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Montesano, Marina |
Redaktion: | Montesano, Marina |
Hersteller: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Maße: | 232 x 154 x 19 mm |
Von/Mit: | Marina Montesano |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 20.08.2021 |
Gewicht: | 0,494 kg |
Marina Montesano is Full Professor of Medieval History at the University of Messina, a fellow of Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, and a member of the scientific committee of the International Society for Cultural History (ISCH). Among her most recent monographs isClassical Culture and Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Italy (2018).
Introduction Part 1: Interpreting Folkloric Beliefs 1. The Tree of the Bourlémonts. Gendered Beliefs in Fairies and Their Transmission From Old To Young Women in Joan of Arc's Domrémy 2. The Rejuvenating Blood: Marsilio Ficino and the Witches 3. The Circulation and Exchange of Ideas, Myths, Legends, and Oral Traditions in the Witchcraft Trials of Italy 4. Between Hell and Paradise: The Legend of the Soul of the Emperor Trajan Part 2: Cultural Exchange among Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Communities 5. Artificial Creation of Human Life: Ibn Wäiyya as a Source of the Fut¿¿¿t al-makkiyya 6.Fragments of a Jewish Magical Tradition in the Library of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 7. Parallel Beliefs: Cultural Exchange between Jews and Christians on Magic and Witchcraft, and the Concerns of the Inquisition Part 3: Preachers as Mediators 8. Some Reports of Magic, Superstition, and Witchcraft in the Medieval Mirabilia Literature 9. 'Diabolical sorceries'. Vicent Ferrer's preaching and the emergence of the witchcraft construct(s) in early fifteenth-century Europe 10. Circulation of Magic and Folkloric Traditions in the Times of Antonino of Florence and Bernardino of Siena Part 4: The Cultural Interpretation of Objects 11. Against the Body of Christ: Exchanges and Cultural Upheavals in Early Modern Italy 12. The Natural and the Supernatural: Collecting, Interests, and Trials of the Nuncio Decio Francesco Vitelli in Venice, 1632-1643 13. The Witch Unravelled: How Pieter Bruegel the Elder Developed a Visual Code to Depict Witchcraft and Sorcery Part 5: Trading Ideas about Witchcraft 14. Ignorantia and Superstitio: A Discussion among Theologians and Inquisitors in the Sixteenth Century 15. The MP and the Astrologer: Rival Cultures of Witchcraft in the East Anglian Witch-hunt 16. A Witchcraft Triangle: Transmitting Witchcraft Ideas Across Early Modern Europe 17. The Shape of Evil: Familiars and Shapeshifting Witches in Seventeenth-Century Finnmark 18. Circulating Knowledge in an Enlightened Discourse. Eberhard David Hauber's Witchcraft Quarterly, 1738-1745
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
---|---|
Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
Genre: | Geschichte |
Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
Thema: | Lexika |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Seiten: | 302 |
Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
ISBN-13: | 9780367557676 |
ISBN-10: | 0367557673 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Montesano, Marina |
Redaktion: | Montesano, Marina |
Hersteller: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Maße: | 232 x 154 x 19 mm |
Von/Mit: | Marina Montesano |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 20.08.2021 |
Gewicht: | 0,494 kg |