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Book Synopsis Witchcraft, Superstition, and Observant Franciscan Preachers by : Fabrizio Conti
Download or read book Witchcraft, Superstition, and Observant Franciscan Preachers written by Fabrizio Conti and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My aim is to analyse how the demarcation between the licit and the illicit took place from the privileged perspective of a number of Observant Franciscan friars...who were active in the friary of St Angelo in Milan between the last two decades of the fifteenth century and the first decade of the sixteenth."--Preface, p. xiv.
Book Synopsis Witchcraft, Sorcery and Superstition by : Jules Michelet
Download or read book Witchcraft, Sorcery and Superstition written by Jules Michelet and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michelet's classic study of medieval hexes and spell-casting.
Book Synopsis The Superstitions of Witchcraft by : Howard Williams
Download or read book The Superstitions of Witchcraft written by Howard Williams and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Superstitions of Witchcraft by Howard Williams
Book Synopsis The Superstitions of Witchcraft by : Howard Williams (M.A.)
Download or read book The Superstitions of Witchcraft written by Howard Williams (M.A.) and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Superstitions of Witchcraft by : Howard Williams
Download or read book The Superstitions of Witchcraft written by Howard Williams and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a history of the practice of witchcraft, including the origin, prevalence and varieties of superstitions that flourished in the 16th-and17th-centuries.
Book Synopsis The Superstitions of Witchcraft by : Williams Howard
Download or read book The Superstitions of Witchcraft written by Williams Howard and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Book Synopsis Witchcraft, Magic and Superstition in England, 1640–70 by : Frederick Valletta
Download or read book Witchcraft, Magic and Superstition in England, 1640–70 written by Frederick Valletta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the relationship between élite and popular beliefs in witchcraft, magic and superstition in England, analyzing such beliefs against the background of political, religious and social upheaval characteristic of the Civil War, Interregnum and Restoration periods. Belief in witchcraft received new impulses because of the general ferment of religious ideas and the tendency of participants in the Civil Wars to resort to imagery drawn from beliefs about the devil and witches; or to use portents to argue for the wrongs of their opponents. Throughout the work, the author stresses that deeply held superstitions were fundamental to belief in witches, the devil, ghosts, apparitions and supernatural healing. Despite the fact that popular superstitions were often condemned, it was recognized that their propaganda value was too useful to ignore. A host of pamphlets and treatises were published during this period which unashamedly incorporated such beliefs. Valletta here explores the manner in which political and religious authorities somewhat cynically used demonic imagery and language to discredit their opponents and to manipulate popular opinion.
Book Synopsis SUPERSTITIONS OF WITCHCRAFT by : HOWARD. WILLIAMS
Download or read book SUPERSTITIONS OF WITCHCRAFT written by HOWARD. WILLIAMS and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Magic and Superstition in Europe by : Michael David Bailey
Download or read book Magic and Superstition in Europe written by Michael David Bailey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only comprehensive, single-volume survey of magic available, this compelling book traces the history of magic and superstition in Europe from antiquity to the present. Focusing mainly on the medieval and early modern era, Michael Bailey also explores the ancient Near East, classical Greece and Rome, and the spread of magical systems_particularly modern witchcraft or Wicca_from Europe to the United States. He explains how magic was understood, constructed, and frequently condemned and how magical beliefs and practices have changed over time yet also remain vital even today.
Book Synopsis A History of Magic and Witchcraft by : Frances Timbers
Download or read book A History of Magic and Witchcraft written by Frances Timbers and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Magic and Masculinity explores the history and development of magic and witchcraft in Western society. Broomsticks, cauldrons, familiars, and spells—magic and witchcraft conjure a vivid picture in our modern-day imagination. While much of our understanding is rooted in superstition and myth, the history of magic and witchcraft offers a window into the past. It illuminates the lives of ordinary people in the past and elucidates the fascinating pop culture of the premodern world. Blowing away folkloric cobwebs, this enlightening new history dispels many misconceptions surrounding witchcraft and magic that we still hold today. From Ancient Greece and Rome to the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, historian Frances Timbers details the impact of Christianity and popular culture in the construction of the figure of the “witch.” The development of demonology and ceremonial magic is combined with the West’s troubled past with magic and witchcraft to chart the birth of modern Wiccan and Neopagan movements in England and North America. Witchcraft is a metaphor for oppression in an age in which persecution is an everyday occurrence somewhere in the world. Fanaticism, intolerance, prejudice, authoritarianism, and religious and political ideologies are never attractive. Beware the witch hunter!
Book Synopsis Superstitions of Witchcraft by : Howard Williams
Download or read book Superstitions of Witchcraft written by Howard Williams and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
Book Synopsis Strange Superstitions and Magical Practices by : William John Fielding
Download or read book Strange Superstitions and Magical Practices written by William John Fielding and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fearful Spirits, Reasoned Follies by : Michael D. Bailey
Download or read book Fearful Spirits, Reasoned Follies written by Michael D. Bailey and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superstitions are commonplace in the modern world. Mostly, however, they evoke innocuous images of people reading their horoscopes or avoiding black cats. Certain religious practices might also come to mind—praying to St. Christopher or lighting candles for the dead. Benign as they might seem today, such practices were not always perceived that way. In medieval Europe superstitions were considered serious offenses, violations of essential precepts of Christian doctrine or immutable natural laws. But how and why did this come to be? In Fearful Spirits, Reasoned Follies, Michael D. Bailey explores the thorny concept of superstition as it was understood and debated in the Middle Ages. Bailey begins by tracing Christian thinking about superstition from the patristic period through the early and high Middle Ages. He then turns to the later Middle Ages, a period that witnessed an outpouring of writings devoted to superstition—tracts and treatises with titles such as De superstitionibus and Contra vitia superstitionum. Most were written by theologians and other academics based in Europe’s universities and courts, men who were increasingly anxious about the proliferation of suspect beliefs and practices, from elite ritual magic to common healing charms, from astrological divination to the observance of signs and omens. As Bailey shows, however, authorities were far more sophisticated in their reasoning than one might suspect, using accusations of superstition in a calculated way to control the boundaries of legitimate religion and acceptable science. This in turn would lay the conceptual groundwork for future discussions of religion, science, and magic in the early modern world. Indeed, by revealing the extent to which early modern thinkers took up old questions about the operation of natural properties and forces using the vocabulary of science rather than of belief, Bailey exposes the powerful but in many ways false dichotomy between the "superstitious" Middle Ages and "rational" European modernity.
Book Synopsis Highland Superstitions by : Alexander Macgregor
Download or read book Highland Superstitions written by Alexander Macgregor and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Essay on Demonology, Ghosts and Apparitions, and Popular Superstitions by : James Thacher
Download or read book An Essay on Demonology, Ghosts and Apparitions, and Popular Superstitions written by James Thacher and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Witchcraft and Superstitious Record in the South-western District of Scotland by : John Maxwell Wood
Download or read book Witchcraft and Superstitious Record in the South-western District of Scotland written by John Maxwell Wood and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cambrian Superstitions, Comprising Ghosts, Omens, Witchcraft, Traditions, &c by : William Howells
Download or read book Cambrian Superstitions, Comprising Ghosts, Omens, Witchcraft, Traditions, &c written by William Howells and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
