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Knowing Demons, Knowing Spirits in the Early Modern Period

Author : Michelle D. Brock
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319757385
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Knowing Demons, Knowing Spirits in the Early Modern Period written by Michelle D. Brock and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the manifold ways of knowing—and knowing about— preternatural beings such as demons, angels, fairies, and other spirits that inhabited and were believed to act in early modern European worlds. Its contributors examine how people across the social spectrum assayed the various types of spiritual entities that they believed dwelled invisibly but meaningfully in the spaces just beyond (and occasionally within) the limits of human perception. Collectively, the volume demonstrates that an awareness and understanding of the nature and capabilities of spirits—whether benevolent or malevolent—was fundamental to the knowledge-making practices that characterize the years between ca. 1500 and 1750. This is, therefore, a book about how epistemological and experiential knowledge of spirits persisted and evolved in concert with the wider intellectual changes of the early modern period, such as the Protestant Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment.

The English Exorcist

Author : Brendan C. Walsh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100009684X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Exorcist written by Brendan C. Walsh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1598, the English clergyman John Darrell was brought before the High Commission at Lambeth Palace to face charges of fraud and counterfeiting. The ecclesiastical authorities alleged that he had "taught 4. to counterfeite" demonic possession over a ten-year period, fashioning himself into a miracle worker. Coming to the attention of the public through his dramatic and successful role as an exorcist in the late sixteenth century, Darrell became a symbol of Puritan spirituality and the subject of fierce ecclesiastical persecution. The High Commission of John Darrell became a flashpoint for theological and demonological debate, functioning as a catalyst for spiritual reform in the early seventeenth-century English Church. John Darrell has long been maligned by scholars; a historiographical perception that this book challenges. The English Exorcist is the first study to provide an in-depth scholarly treatment of Darrell’s exorcism ministry and his demonology. It shines new light on the corpus of theological treatises that emerged from the Darrell Controversy, thereby illustrating the profound impact of Darrell’s exorcism ministry on early modern Reformed English Protestant demonology. The book establishes an intellectual biography of this figure and sketches out the full compelling story of the Darrell Controversy.

The supernatural in early modern Scotland

Author : Julian Goodare
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526134446
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The supernatural in early modern Scotland written by Julian Goodare and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about other worlds and the supernatural beings, from angels to fairies, that inhabited them. It is about divination, prophecy, visions and trances. And it is about the cultural, religious, political and social uses to which people in Scotland put these supernatural themes between 1500 and 1800. The supernatural consistently provided Scots with a way of understanding topics such as the natural environment, physical and emotional wellbeing, political events and visions of past and future. In exploring the early modern supernatural, the book has much to reveal about how men and women in this period thought about, debated and experienced the world around them. Comprising twelve chapters by an international range of scholars, The supernatural in early modern Scotland discusses both popular and elite understandings of the supernatural.

Anglo-Dutch Connections in the Early Modern World

Author : Sjoerd Levelt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000837726
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Book Synopsis Anglo-Dutch Connections in the Early Modern World by : Sjoerd Levelt

Download or read book Anglo-Dutch Connections in the Early Modern World written by Sjoerd Levelt and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-10 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking collection reveals the networks of interrelation between Early Modern England and the Dutch Republic. As people, ideas and goods moved back and forth across the North Sea – or spread further afield in the vanguard of globalisation and empire – Anglo-Dutch relations shaped all aspects of life, with profound implications still relevant today. A diverse range of expert scholars share new research in their discipline, ranging across technology, trade, politics, religion and the arts. Different aspects of this history of competition, alliance, migration and conflict are taken up by each chapter, providing the reader with detailed case studies as well as the broader background and its historical roots. Anglo-Dutch Connections in the Early Modern World aims to be both accessible and innovative. It will be essential to students and researchers interested in European politics, intellectual history, and shared Anglo-Dutch society, while showcasing current research in multiple facets of the Early Modern World.

Embodiment, Expertise, and Ethics in Early Modern Europe

Author : Marlene L. Eberhart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000225100
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Embodiment, Expertise, and Ethics in Early Modern Europe by : Marlene L. Eberhart

Download or read book Embodiment, Expertise, and Ethics in Early Modern Europe written by Marlene L. Eberhart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embodiment, Expertise, and Ethics in Early Modern Europe highlights the agency and intentionality of individuals and groups in the making of sensory knowledge from approximately 1500 to 1700. Focused case studies show how artisans, poets, writers, and theologians responded creatively to their environments, filtering the cultural resources at their disposal through the lenses of their own more immediate experiences and concerns. The result was not a single, unified sensory culture, but rather an entangling of micro-cultural dynamics playing out across an archipelago of contexts that dotted the early modern European world—one that saw profound transitions in ways people used sensory knowledge to claim ethical, intellectual, and practical authority.

Early Modern Prophecies in Transnational, National and Regional Contexts (3 vols.)

Author : Lionel Laborie
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004443630
Total Pages : 893 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis Early Modern Prophecies in Transnational, National and Regional Contexts (3 vols.) by : Lionel Laborie

Download or read book Early Modern Prophecies in Transnational, National and Regional Contexts (3 vols.) written by Lionel Laborie and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 893 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laborie and Hessayon bring rare prophetic and millenarian texts to an international audience by presenting sources from all over Europe (broadly defined), and across the early modern period in English for the first time.

Histories of Experience in the World of Lived Religion

Author : Sari Katajala-Peltomaa
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030921409
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Book Synopsis Histories of Experience in the World of Lived Religion by : Sari Katajala-Peltomaa

Download or read book Histories of Experience in the World of Lived Religion written by Sari Katajala-Peltomaa and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'At a historic moment, when religion shows all its social and political strength in various post-modern societies around our globe, this fascinating collection of studies from the Middle Ages to twentieth-century Europe demonstrates all the richness and innovative force of investigating individual and shared experiences when questioning the cultural, political and social place of religion in society. It also makes known in English the work of a series of Finnish historians elaborating together a pioneering vision of the notion of experience in the discipline of history.' - Piroska Nagy, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada This open access book offers a theoretical introduction to the history of experience on three conceptual levels: everyday experience, experience as process, and experience as structure. Chapters apply 'experience' to empirical case studies, exploring how people have made and shared their religion through experience in history. This book understands experience as a simultaneously socially constructed and intimately personal process that connects individuals to communities and past to future, thereby forming structures that create and direct societies. It represents the crossroads of a new field of the history of experience, and an established tradition of the history of lived religion. Chapters offer a longue duree view from the fourteenth-century heretics, via experiences of miracle, madness, sickness, suffering, prayer, conversion and death, to the religious artisanship of soldiers in the Second World War frontlines. It concentrates on Northern Europe, but includes materials from Italy, France and United Kingdom.

The National Covenant in Scotland, 1638-1689

Author : Chris R. Langley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783275308
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book The National Covenant in Scotland, 1638-1689 written by Chris R. Langley and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did it mean to be a Covenanter?

Investigations into Magic, an Edition and Translation of Martín Del Río’s Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex

Author : José Manuel García Valverde
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900446896X
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis Investigations into Magic, an Edition and Translation of Martín Del Río’s Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex by : José Manuel García Valverde

Download or read book Investigations into Magic, an Edition and Translation of Martín Del Río’s Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex written by José Manuel García Valverde and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full modern English version of Del Río’s treatise, unrivalled in its breadth, detail, and scholarship, on the occult sciences as they were understood, experienced, and combatted at the end of the sixteenth century.

T&T Clark Handbook of Anabaptism

Author : Brian C. Brewer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567689492
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Book Synopsis T&T Clark Handbook of Anabaptism by : Brian C. Brewer

Download or read book T&T Clark Handbook of Anabaptism written by Brian C. Brewer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By utilizing the contributions of a variety of scholars – theologians, historians, and biblical scholars – this book makes the complex and sometimes disparate Anabaptist movement more easily accessible. It does this by outlining Anabaptism's early history during the Reformation of the sixteenth century, its varied and distinctive theological convictions, and its ongoing challenges to and influence on contemporary Christianity. T&T Clark Handbook of Anabaptism comprises four sections: 1) Origins, 2) Doctrine, 3) Influences on Anabaptism, and 4) Contemporary Anabaptism and Relationship to Others. The volume concludes with a chapter on how contemporary Anabaptists interact with the wider Church in all its variety. While some of the authorities within the volume will disagree even with one another regarding Anabaptist origins, emphases on doctrine, and influence in the contemporary world, such differences represent the diversity that constitutes the history of this movement.

Evil, Spirits, and Possession

Author : David L Bradnick
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004350616
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Evil, Spirits, and Possession written by David L Bradnick and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Evil, Spirits, and Possession: An Emergentist Theology of the Demonic David Bradnick suggests that the demonic arises from evolutionary processes and manifests as non-personal emergent forces that influence humans to initiate and execute nefarious activities

Global Reformations

Author : Nicholas Terpstra
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429678258
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Global Reformations written by Nicholas Terpstra and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-17 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Reformations offers a sustained, comparative, and interdisciplinary exploration of religious transformations in the early modern world. The volume explores global developments and tracks the many ways in which Reformation movements shaped relations of Christians with other Christians, and also with Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and aboriginal groups in the Americas. Contributions explore the negotiations, tensions, and contacts that developed across social, gender, and religious lines in different parts of the globe, focusing on how different convictions about religious reform and approaches to it shaped social action and cross-confessional encounters. The essays explore the convergence of religious reform, global expansion, and governmental consolidation in the early modern world and examine the Reformation as a global phenomenon; the authors ask how a global frame complicates our understanding of what the Reformation itself was and offer a unique and up-to-date examination of the Reformation that broadens readers’ understanding in creative and useful ways. Demonstrating new research and innovative approaches in the study of cross-cultural contact during the early modern period, this volume is ideal for advanced undergraduates and graduates of early modern history, religious history, women's & gender studies, and global history.

Cultures of Care

Author : Chris R. Langley
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004427384
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Cultures of Care written by Chris R. Langley and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cultures of Care, Chris R. Langley explores the relationship between charity, self-help and the discipline of the early modern Church of Scotland.

Witchcraft, Demonology and Magic

Author : Marina Montesano
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3039289594
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (392 download)

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Download or read book Witchcraft, Demonology and Magic written by Marina Montesano and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witchcraft and magic are topics of enduring interest for many reasons. The main one lies in their extraordinary interdisciplinarity: anthropologists, folklorists, historians, and more have contributed to build a body of work of extreme variety and consistence. Of course, this also means that the subjects themselves are not easy to assess. In a very general way, we can define witchcraft as a supernatural means to cause harm, death, or misfortune, while magic also belongs to the field of supernatural, or at least esoteric knowledge, but can be used to less dangerous effects (e.g., divination and astrology). In Western civilization, however, the witch hunt has set a very peculiar perspective in which diabolical witchcraft, the invention of the Sabbat, the persecution of many thousands of (mostly) female and (sometimes) male presumed witches gave way to a phenomenon that is fundamentally different from traditional witchcraft. This Special Issue of Religions dedicated to Witchcraft, Demonology, and Magic features nine articles that deal with four different regions of Europe (England, Germany, Hungary, and Italy) between Late Medieval and Modern times in different contexts and social milieus. Far from pretending to offer a complete picture, they focus on some topics that are central to the research in those fields and fit well in the current “cumulative concept of Western witchcraft” that rules out all mono-causality theories, investigating a plurality of causes.

The Magic of Rogues

Author : Frank Klaassen
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271089520
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Magic of Rogues written by Frank Klaassen and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1510, nine men were tried in the Archbishop’s Court in York for attempting to find and extract a treasure on the moor near Mixindale through necromantic magic. Two decades later, William Neville and his magician were arrested by Thomas Cromwell for having engaged in a treasonous combination of magic practices and prophecy surrounding the death of William’s older brother, Lord Latimer, and the king. In The Magic of Rogues, Frank Klaassen and Sharon Hubbs Wright present the legal documents about and open a window onto these fascinating investigations of magic practitioners in early Tudor England. Set side by side with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century texts that describe the sorts of magic those practitioners performed, these documents are translated, contextualized, and presented in language accessible to nonspecialist readers. Their analysis reveals how magicians and cunning folk operated in extended networks in which they exchanged knowledge, manuscripts, equipment, and even clients; foregrounds magicians’ encounters with authority in ways that separate them from traditional narratives about witchcraft and witch trials; and suggests that the regulation and punishment of magic in the Tudor period were comparatively and perhaps surprisingly gentle. Incorporating the study of both intellectual and legal sources, The Magic of Rogues presents a well-rounded picture of illicit learned magic in early Tudor England. Engaging and accessible, this book will appeal to anyone seeking to understand the intersection of medieval legal history, religion, magic, esotericism, and Tudor history.

Protestants and Mysticism in Reformation Europe

Author : Ronald K. Rittgers
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004393188
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Protestants and Mysticism in Reformation Europe written by Ronald K. Rittgers and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protestants and Mysticism in Reformation Europe, edited by Ronald K. Rittgers and Vincent Evener, is a research handbook on the Protestant reception of mysticism, from the beginnings of the Reformation through the mid-seventeenth century.

Cities, and Thrones, and Powers

Author : Stephen R. L. Clark
Publisher : Angelico Press
ISBN 13 : 1621388557
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Cities, and Thrones, and Powers written by Stephen R. L. Clark and published by Angelico Press. This book was released on 2022-06-29 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would a "reappeared" Plotinus answer today if asked how we might build a divinely-ordered city? That is the question at the core of this unique book, and Stephen Clark takes us on a wide-ranging deep dive to uncover possible answers. To do so, he first gives an account of the Plotinian philosophy of mind and metaphysics, showing how Plotinus nicely balances the entanglement of soul-body composites (our immediate identities) with the workings of the World Soul and the eternal soul that animates "from within." Drawing on later Christian and Islamic interpretations of the Neoplatonic tradition, and parallel developments in Hindu thought, he then describes the various social forms that seem to be the inevitable context of our lives here and now. Furthermore, we discover that the form a Plotinian religion adopts depends on taking seriously the thought of reincarnating souls and wandering hermits, but now with the difference in our time that, although some sages may be content to consider themselves simple wanderers in a world without borders or settled communities, some will follow the same path as Buddhists, Epicureans, and Christians: forming communities of friends loyal to their founder and to the fellowship of the Sangha. We learn as well that in due course even those among the hermits who prefer to go, almost literally, "alone to the Alone" will become part of dispersed, unhierarchical communities. Finally, Clark offers cautious thoughts about our likely futures, dependent both on current technological advances and on the realistic suspicion (shared by our predecessors) that catastrophes and wholly unexpected turns are always to be expected.