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In the Company of Demons

Author : Armando Maggi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226501299
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book In the Company of Demons written by Armando Maggi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-05-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are the familiar spirits of classical culture and what is their relationship to Christian demons? In its interpretation of Latin and Greek culture, Christianity contends that Satan is behind all classical deities, semi-gods, and spiritual creatures, including the gods of the household, the lares and penates.But with In the Company of Demons, the world’s leading demonologist Armando Maggi argues that the great thinkers of the Italian Renaissance had a more nuanced and perhaps less sinister interpretation of these creatures or spiritual bodies. Maggi leads us straight to the heart of what Italian Renaissance culture thought familiar spirits were. Through close readings of Giovan Francesco Pico della Mirandola, Strozzi Cigogna, Pompeo della Barba, Ludovico Sinistrari, and others, we find that these spirits or demons speak through their sudden and striking appearances—their very bodies seen as metaphors to be interpreted. The form of the body, Maggi explains, relies on the spirits’ knowledge of their human interlocutors’ pasts. But their core trait is compassion, and sometimes their odd, eerie arrivals are seen as harbingers or warnings to protect us. It comes as no surprise then that when spiritual beings distort the natural world to communicate, it is vital that we begin to listen.

Lewes Lavater

Author : J. Dover Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258885410
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book Lewes Lavater written by J. Dover Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.

Of Ghostes and Spirites, Walking by Night

Author : Ludwig Lavater
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Of Ghostes and Spirites, Walking by Night written by Ludwig Lavater and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Of Ghostes and Spirites, Walking by Night" (And of Straunge Noyses, Crackes, and Sundrie Forewarnings, Which Commonly Happen Before the Death of Men: Great Slaughters, and Alterations of Kingdoms) by Ludwig Lavater. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Rethinking Ghosts in World Religions

Author : Muzhou Pu
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004171525
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Ghosts in World Religions written by Muzhou Pu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central theme of this volume is to re-examine the received concepts and images of ghosts in various religious cultures ranging from the Ancient Near East and Egypt to the Old Testament, the Classical Era, Early Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Early India, and Medieval China. As a religious phenomenon, the realm of ghosts has been less studied than the realm of the divine. Through a collaborative effort by scholars from different disciplines, this volume proposes a multi-cultural approach to construct a wider and complicated picture of the phenomenon of ghosts and spirits in human societies and to have a grasp of the various problems involved in understanding the phenomenon of ghost.

The Hibbert Journal

Author : Lawrence Pearsall Jacks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 956 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Hibbert Journal written by Lawrence Pearsall Jacks and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quarterly review of religion, theology, and philosophy.

Supernatural and Secular Power in Early Modern England

Author : Marcus Harmes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317048377
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Supernatural and Secular Power in Early Modern England written by Marcus Harmes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the people of early modern England, the dividing line between the natural and supernatural worlds was both negotiable and porous - particularly when it came to issues of authority. Without a precise separation between ’science’ and ’magic’ the realm of the supernatural was a contested one, that could be used both to bolster and challenge various forms of authority and the exercise of power in early modern England. In order to better understand these issues, this volume addresses a range of questions regarding the ways in which ideas, beliefs and constructions of the supernatural threatened and conflicted with authority, as well as how the power of the supernatural could be used by authorities (monarchical, religious, legal or familial) to reinforce established social norms. Drawing upon a range of historical, literary and dramatic texts the collection reveals intersecting early modern anxieties in relation to the supernatural, issues of control and the exercise of power at different levels of society, from the upper echelons of power at court to local and domestic spaces, and in a range of publication contexts - manuscript sources, printed prose texts and the early modern stage. Divided into three sections - ’Magic at Court’, ’Performance, Text and Language’ and ’Witchcraft, the Devil and the Body’ - the volume offers a broad cultural approach to the subject that reflects current research by a range of early modern scholars from the disciplines of history and literature. By bringing scholars into an interdisciplinary dialogue, the case studies presented here generate fresh insights within and between disciplines and different methodologies and approaches, which are mutually illuminating.

The Duchess of Malfi

Author : John Webster
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1904271510
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Duchess of Malfi written by John Webster and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-09-09 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Duchess of Malfi is amacabre, tragic play which is often performed and studied at A leveland university. This Arden edition brings all the scholarship andcomprehensive analysis associated with the series and offers readers adeeper understanding of the play than competing editions.

Understanding Hamlet

Author : Richard Corum
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313007780
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Hamlet written by Richard Corum and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-10-28 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's Hamlet, regarded by many as the world's most famous play by the world's most famous writer, is one of the most complex, demanding, discussed, and influential literary texts in English. As a means of access to this play, this unique collection of primary materials and commentary will help student and teacher explore historical, literary, theatrical, social, and cultural issues related to the play. In an approach unique for this series, Corum guides the reader through a literary analysis of Hamlet's options. He examines the popular theatres of the day in which Shakespeare and his company first produced Hamlet and discusses the genre of tragedy in which it is written. Through judicious selection of primary historical documents, the work provides contexts for understanding Hamlet's melancholy, the ghost of Hamlet's father, the theme of revenge, and Hamlet's feigned madness. Chapters on Gertrude and Ophelia illuminate these characters in the context of the play and early modern English culture. Each chapter contains a variety of materials, many of which are not readily available elsewhere: essays, poems, histories, treatises, official documents, stories, religious tracts, homilies, memoirs, engravings, village records, and fifteen illustrations. An explanatory introduction precedes each document. Each chapter concludes with study questions, topics for written and oral exploration, and a list of suggested readings. This casebook will enrich the reader's understanding of the play and the context in which it was written.

Ghosts

Author : Roger Clarke
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250053579
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Ghosts written by Roger Clarke and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published under title: A natural history of ghosts: 500 years of hunting for proof. London: Particular Books, 2012.

New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology: Witchcraft in the British Isles and New England

Author : Levack, Brian Paul Levack
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815336723
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology: Witchcraft in the British Isles and New England written by Levack, Brian Paul Levack and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2001 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ghost Trackers

Author : Chris Gudgeon
Publisher : Tundra Books
ISBN 13 : 1770491813
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Ghost Trackers written by Chris Gudgeon and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the hit television series "Ghost Trackers," this ghostly tome invites readers to explore the mysteries that haunt us all: ghostly histories, how to equip yourself to explore a haunted house, the latest on what the scientists think. All this and much more is packed into this fascinating book. In the world of Ghost Trackers, kids who are interested in ghosts and the paranormal search for answers to the questions we all have about the afterlife. Full of stories of sightings, both ancient and recent, and information about becoming a ghost tracker, this book demands to be read and shared. After all, who knows if ghosts are evidence of life after death or if they are simply a natural occurrence we are yet to understand?

Gender and Early Modern Constructions of Childhood

Author : Naomi J. Miller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351934848
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Early Modern Constructions of Childhood written by Naomi J. Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on art history, literary studies and social history, the essays in this volume explore a range of intersections between gender and constructions of childhood in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries in Italy, England, France and Spain. The essays are grouped around the themes of celebration and loss, education and social training, growing up and growing old. Contributors grapple with ways in which constructions of childhood were inflected by considerations of gender throughout the early modern world. In so doing, they examine representations of children and childhood in a range of sources from the period, from paintings and poetry to legal records and personal correspondence. The volume sheds light on some of the ways in which, in the relations between Renaissance children and their parents and peers, gender mattered. Gender and Early Modern Constructions of Childhood enriches our understanding of individual children and the nature of familial relations in the early modern period, as well as of the relevance of gender to constructions of self and society.

Invisible

Author : Philip Ball
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022623889X
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Invisible written by Philip Ball and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science is said to be on the verge of achieving the ancient dream of making objects invisible. Invisible is a biography of an idea, tied to the history of science over the "longue duree." Taking in Plato to today s science, Ball shows us that the stories we have told about invisibility are not in fact about technical capability but about power, sex, concealment, morality, and corruption. Precisely because they refer to matters that lie beyond our senses, unseen beings and worlds have long been a repository for hopes, fears, and suppressed desires. Ideas of invisibility are, like all ideas rooted in legend, ultimately parables about our own potential and weaknesses. Invisible presents the first comprehensive survey of the roles that the idea of invisibility has played throughout time and culture. This territory takes us from medieval grimoires to cutting-edge nanotechnology, from fairy tales to telecommunications, from camouflage to early cinematography, and from beliefs about ghosts to the dawn of nuclear physics and the discovery of dark energy. Invisible reveals what our age-old fantasies about what lurks unseen, and whether we can enter that realm ourselves, truly say about us. "

Some Renaissance Studies :

Author : M. A. Screech
Publisher : Librairie Droz
ISBN 13 : 9782600031738
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (317 download)

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Download or read book Some Renaissance Studies : written by M. A. Screech and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1992 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Early Modern Supernatural

Author : Jane P. Davidson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Early Modern Supernatural written by Jane P. Davidson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devils, ghosts, poltergeists, werewolves, and witches are all covered in this book about the "dark side" of supernatural beliefs in early modern Europe, tapping period literature, folklore, art, and scholarly writings in its investigation. The dark side of early modern European culture could be deemed equal in historical significance to Christianity based on the hundreds of books that were printed about the topic between 1400 and 1700. Famous writers and artists like William Shakespeare and Albrecht Dürer depicted the dark side in their work, and some of the first printed books in Europe were about witches. The pervasive representation of these monsters and apparitions in period literature, folklore, and art clearly reflects their power to inspire fear and superstition, but also demonstrates how integral they were to early modern European culture. This unique book addresses topics of the supernatural within the context of the early modern period in Europe, covering "mythical" entities such as devils, witches, ghosts, poltergeists, and werewolves in detail and examining how they fit in with the emerging new scientific method of the time. This unique combination of cultural studies for the period is ideal for undergraduate students and general readers.

Seeing Things

Author : Alan Louis Ackerman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442643641
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Seeing Things written by Alan Louis Ackerman and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A technological revolution has changed the way we see things. The storytelling media employed by Pixar Animation Studios, Samuel Beckett, and William Shakespeare differ greatly, yet these creators share a collective fascination with the nebulous boundary between material objects and our imaginative selves. How do the acts of seeing and believing remain linked? Alan Ackerman charts the dynamic history of interactions between showing and knowing in Seeing Things, a richly interdisciplinary study which illuminates changing modes of perception and modern representational media. Seeing Things demonstrates that the airy nothings of A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Ghost in Hamlet, and soulless bodies in Beckett's media experiments, alongside Toy Story's digitally animated toys, all serve to illustrate the modern problem of visualizing, as Hamlet put it, 'that within which passes show.' Ackerman carefully analyses such ghostly appearances and disappearances across cultural forms and contexts from the early modern period to the present, investigating the tension between our distrust of shadows and our abiding desire to believe in invisible realities. Seeing Things provides a fresh and surprising cultural history through theatrical, verbal, pictorial, and cinematic representations.

Dreaming the English Renaissance

Author : C. Levin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230615732
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Dreaming the English Renaissance written by C. Levin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-10-13 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreaming the English Renaissance examines ideas about dreams, actual dreams people had and recorded, and the many ways dreams were used in the culture and politics of the Tutor/Stuart age in order to provide a window into the mental life and the most profound beliefs of people of the time.