Medicine Magic And Art In Early Modern Norway

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Medicine, Magic and Art in Early Modern Norway

Author : Ane Ohrvik
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137467428
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Medicine, Magic and Art in Early Modern Norway written by Ane Ohrvik and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses magical ideas and practices in early modern Norway. It examines a large corpus of Norwegian manuscripts from 1650-1850 commonly called Black Books which contained a mixture of recipes on medicine, magic, and art. Ane Ohrvik assesses the Black Books from the vantage point of those who wrote the manuscripts and thus offers an original study of how early modern magical practitioners presented their ideas and saw their practices. The book show how the writers viewed magic and medicine both as practical and sacred art and as knowledge worth protecting through encoding the text. The study of the Black Books illuminates how ordinary people in Norway conceptualized magic as valuable and useful knowledge worth of collecting and saving despite the ongoing witchcraft prosecutions targeting the very same ideas and practices as the books promoted. Medicine, Magic and Art in Early Modern Norway is essential for those looking to advance their studies in magical beliefs and practices in early modern Europe as well as those interested in witchcraft studies, book history, and the history of knowledge.

The Magical and Sacred Medical World

Author : Éva Pócs
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527525791
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book The Magical and Sacred Medical World written by Éva Pócs and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers explores the sacred and magical aspects of ethno-medicine. The subject area is marked out by the points of connection between religious anthropology, ethno-medicine and medical anthropology, focusing on topics such as magical and religious concepts of health and disease, causes of disease, religious and magical averting and healing rites, healing gods, saints and, last but not least, the role that these play in the society, religion, mentality and everyday life of a community, as well as their various representations in folklore, literature or art. This volume includes, without restrictions of a methodological, temporal or geographical nature, works from the fields of folklore studies, anthropology, cultural history, comparative historical and textual philology, as well as research findings using the latest methods of analysis in textual folklore or based on archival research or fieldwork in or outside of Europe. This book will appeal to researchers and students of religion, folklore, and medical anthropology, as well as general readers interested in the humanities and cultural history.

Fictional Practice: Magic, Narration, and the Power of Imagination

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004466002
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Fictional Practice: Magic, Narration, and the Power of Imagination written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tying on case studies from late antiquity to the 21st century, this is the first volume that systematically explores the inter-relationship between fictional narratives about magic and the real-world ritual art of practicing magicians.

Grimm Ripples: The Legacy of the Grimms’ Deutsche Sagen in Northern Europe

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004511644
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Grimm Ripples: The Legacy of the Grimms’ Deutsche Sagen in Northern Europe written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-04-04 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds new light on the key role played by the Grimms’ Deutsche Sagen in the collection of folklore an d the creation of national culture in Northern Europe.

Narratives and Rituals of the Nightmare Hag in Scandinavian Folk Belief

Author : Catharina Raudvere
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030489191
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Narratives and Rituals of the Nightmare Hag in Scandinavian Folk Belief written by Catharina Raudvere and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This books explores varying conceptions of the Nightmare hag, mara, in Scandinavian folk belief. What began as observations of some startling narratives preserved in folklore archives where sex, violence and curses are recurring themes gradually led to questions as to how rural people envisaged good and evil, illness and health, and cause and effect. At closer reading, narratives about the mara character involve existential themes, as well as comments on gender and social hierarchy. This monograph analyses how this female creature was conceived of in oral literature and everyday ritual practice in pre-industrial Scandinavia, and what role she played in a larger pattern of belief in witchcraft and magic.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Cultural and Cognitive Aesthetics of Religion

Author : Anne Koch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350066729
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Cultural and Cognitive Aesthetics of Religion written by Anne Koch and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridging the gap between cognition and culture, this handbook explores both social scientific and humanities approaches to understanding the physical processes of religious life, tradition, practice, and belief. It reflects the cultural turn within the study of religion and puts theory to the fore, moving beyond traditional theological, philosophical, and ethnographic understandings of the aesthetics of religion. Editors Anne Koch and Katharina Wilkens bring together research in cultural studies, cognitive studies, material religion, religion and the arts, and epistemology. Questions of identity, gender, ethnicity, and postcolonialism are discussed throughout. Key topics include materiality, embodiment, performance, popular/vernacular art and space to move beyond a sensory understanding of aesthetics. Emerging areas of research are covered, including secular aesthetics and the aesthetic of spirits. This is an important contribution to theory and method in the study of religion, and is grounded in research that has been taking place in Europe over the past 20 years. Case studies are drawn from around the world with contributions from scholars based in Europe, the USA, and Australia. The book is illustrated with over 40 color images and features a foreword from Birgit Meyer.

The Way of the Wise

Author : J.T. Sibley
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1514421925
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book The Way of the Wise written by J.T. Sibley and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-11-12 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, we worry about Mad Cow Disease, AIDS, Alzheimers, and other prolonged-onset ailments. But back in the “good old days”, folks worried about infected cuts and slashes, internal diseases, parasites, and a whole variety of ailments which are perfectly treatable or preventable by means of modern medicine. Folks rarely lived long enough to suffer from a long, slow disease; heck, just staying alive to see one’s fortieth birthday was considered a feat. Even as late as the 19th century, medicine was pretty medieval to our way of looking at it. There were no wonder drugs, no X-ray or CAT scans, no hospitals as we know them today, and spotty training of medical professionals. The dentist was feared, and quack nostrums were sold by the case by traveling snake-oil salesmen. Many of those nostrums contained relatively innocuous ingredients, but some were downright dangerous, especially those incorporating psychoactive alkaloids, heavy metals or raw isotopes. Mercury or radium were primary ingredients in some quack medicinal “cures” even into the early 20th century. And in rural areas, the old “magic medicine” was still practiced by generations of folks who passed on these traditions and lore to their students and/or children. Much of the material presented in this volume has already been documented and published in the Norwegian language by scholars and folklorists, such as Ingjald Reichborn-Kjennerud, Nils Lid, Hjalmar Falk, Olav Bø, O.A. Høeg, Per Holck, Odd Nordland, Chr. Bang, and A. Steen, among others. There has been a growing interest in folklore, folk medicine, and the “old ways” in recent years, and this volume is an attempt to present a part of this lore to the English-speaking audience.

The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe

Author : E. Bever
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230582117
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe written by E. Bever and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-06-11 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Magic, Science, and Religion in Early Modern Europe

Author : Mark A. Waddell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108425283
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Magic, Science, and Religion in Early Modern Europe written by Mark A. Waddell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible new exploration of the vibrant world of early modern Europe through a focus on magic, science, and religion.

Medical Jewels, Magical Gems

Author : Tom Blaen
Publisher : Medieval Press Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780956611932
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Medical Jewels, Magical Gems written by Tom Blaen and published by Medieval Press Limited. This book was released on 2012 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most extensive and thorough examination of the beliefs associated with precious stones in early modern Britain. It summarises the inherited classical, Biblical and medieval lapidary traditions, and analyses how these were developed and changed prior to their disappearance from the cultural mainstream in the eighteenth century. It studies their relationship with religion, their use in magic, the important role they played in both elite and popular medicine, the impact which the 'new science' of the seventeenth century had on them and the reason for their disappearance from orthodox medicine. This exciting new work, based on many years research, is the first academic work to explore the rich cultural history that surrounded the beliefs in the virtues of gemstones.

Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110556070
Total Pages : 757 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time written by Albrecht Classen and published by de Gruyter. This book was released on 2017 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are no clear demarcation lines between magic, astrology, necromancy, medicine, and even sciences in the pre-modern world. Under the umbrella term 'magic,' the contributors to this volume examine a wide range of texts, both literary and religious, both medical and philosophical, in which the topic is discussed from many different perspectives. The fundamental concerns address issue such as how people perceived magic, whether they accepted it and utilized it for their own purposes, and what impact magic might have had on the mental structures of that time. While some papers examine the specific appearance of magicians in literary texts, others analyze the practical application of magic in medical contexts. In addition, this volume includes studies that deal with the rise of the witch craze in the late fifteenth century and then also investigate whether the Weberian notion of disenchantment pertaining to the modern world can be maintained. Magic is, oddly but significantly, still around us and exerts its influence. Focusing on magic in the medieval world thus helps us to shed light on human culture at large.

Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 4

Author : William Monter
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0485891042
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (858 download)

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Book Synopsis Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 4 by : William Monter

Download or read book Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 4 written by William Monter and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifteenth to eighteenth centuries was a period of witchcraft prosecutions throughout Europe and modern scholars have now devoted a huge amount of research to these episodes. This volume will attempt to bring this work together by summarising the history of the trials in a new way - according to the types of legal systems involved. Other topics covered will be the continued practical use made of magic, the elaboration of demonological theories about witchcraft and magic, and the further development of scientific interests in natural magic through the 'Neoplatonic' and 'Hermetic' period.Amongst the topics included here are Superstition and Belief in high and popular culture, the place of Medicine, Witchcraft survivals in art and literature, and the survival of Persecution.>

Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 4

Author : Bengt Ankarloo
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812217872
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 4 written by Bengt Ankarloo and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2002-12-23 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compact survey of the European witch craze of the early modern period—a craze that later spilled over to America.

The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West

Author : David J. Collins, S. J.
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316239497
Total Pages : 1240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West written by David J. Collins, S. J. and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 1240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents twenty chapters by experts in their fields, providing a thorough and interdisciplinary overview of the theory and practice of magic in the West. Its chronological scope extends from the Ancient Near East to twenty-first-century North America; its objects of analysis range from Persian curse tablets to US neo-paganism. For comparative purposes, the volume includes chapters on developments in the Jewish and Muslim worlds, evaluated not simply for what they contributed at various points to European notions of magic, but also as models of alternative development in ancient Mediterranean legacy. Similarly, the volume highlights the transformative and challenging encounters of Europeans with non-Europeans, regarding the practice of magic in both early modern colonization and more recent decolonization.

Magiasta läaketieteeseen

Author : Kirsi Eskelinen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book Magiasta läaketieteeseen written by Kirsi Eskelinen and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Medicine, Religion, and Magic in Early Stuart England

Author : Ofer Hadass
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271081759
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Medicine, Religion, and Magic in Early Stuart England written by Ofer Hadass and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astrologer-physician Richard Napier (1559-1634) was not only a man of practical science and medicine but also a master of occult arts and a devout parish rector who purportedly held conversations with angels. This new interpretation of Napier reveals him to be a coherent and methodical man whose burning desire for certain, true knowledge contributed to the contemporary venture of putting existing knowledge to useful ends. Originally trained in theology and ordained as an Anglican priest, Napier later studied astrological medicine and combined astrology, religious thought, and image and ritual magic in his medical work. Ofer Hadass draws on a remarkable archive of Napier’s medical cases and religious writings—including the interviews he claimed to have held with angels—to show how Napier’s seemingly inconsistent approaches were rooted in an inclusive and coherent worldview, combining equal respect for ancient authority and for experientially derived knowledge. Napier’s endeavors exemplify the fruitful relationship between religion and science that offered a well-founded alternative to the rising mechanistic explanation of nature at the time. Carefully researched and compellingly told, Medicine, Religion, and Magic in Early Stuart England is an insightful exploration of one of the most fascinating figures at the intersection of medicine, magic, and theology in early modern England and of the healing methods employed by physicians of the era.

Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History

Author : Owen Davies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 082644279X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History written by Owen Davies and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cunning-folk were local practitioners of magic, providing small-scale but valued service to the community. They were far more representative of magical practice than the arcane delvings of astrologers and necromancers. Mostly unsensational in their approach, cunning-folk helped people with everyday problems: how to find lost objects; how to escape from bad luck or a suspected spell; and how to attract a lover or keep the love of a husband or wife. While cunning-folk sometimes fell foul of the authorities, both church and state often turned a blind eye to their existence and practices, distinguishing what they did from the rare and sensational cases of malvolent witchcraft. In a world of uncertainty, before insurance and modern science, cunning-folk played an important role that has previously been ignored.