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Author : Reineke-Gesellschaft. Jahrestagung
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
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Download or read book Zauberer und Hexen in der Kultur des Mittelalters written by Reineke-Gesellschaft. Jahrestagung and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110556529
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time written by Albrecht Classen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 742 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.
Author : Jonathan Bryan Durrant
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810872455
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Witchcraft written by Jonathan Bryan Durrant and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the history of witchcraft from 1750 B.C.E. though the modern day. Includes a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography featuring cross-referenced entries on witch hunts, witchcraft trials, and related practices around the world.
Author : Brian P. Levack
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191648841
Total Pages : 2127 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America written by Brian P. Levack and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 2127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this Handbook, written by leading scholars working in the rapidly developing field of witchcraft studies, explore the historical literature regarding witch beliefs and witch trials in Europe and colonial America between the early fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries. During these years witches were thought to be evil people who used magical power to inflict physical harm or misfortune on their neighbours. Witches were also believed to have made pacts with the devil and sometimes to have worshipped him at nocturnal assemblies known as sabbaths. These beliefs provided the basis for defining witchcraft as a secular and ecclesiastical crime and prosecuting tens of thousands of women and men for this offence. The trials resulted in as many as fifty thousand executions. These essays study the rise and fall of witchcraft prosecutions in the various kingdoms and territories of Europe and in English, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies in the Americas. They also relate these prosecutions to the Catholic and Protestant reformations, the introduction of new forms of criminal procedure, medical and scientific thought, the process of state-building, profound social and economic change, early modern patterns of gender relations, and the wave of demonic possessions that occurred in Europe at the same time. The essays survey the current state of knowledge in the field, explore the academic controversies that have arisen regarding witch beliefs and witch trials, propose new ways of studying the subject, and identify areas for future research.
Author : Peter H. Goodrich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135583390
Total Pages : 882 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Merlin written by Peter H. Goodrich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with all aspects of the Merlin legend, from its origins to its expression in medieval and modern literature, film, and popular culture. Following an extended introduction and a full bibliography, the volume offers nearly twenty essays--some newly commissioned for this volume, others selected from the most important scholarly and critical studies of Merlin and his role. Two of the reprinted essays are translated into English for the first time.
Author : Elaine Barber
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859916332
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (163 download)
Download or read book Arthurian Bibliography IV written by Elaine Barber and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2002 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fourth volume of entries, culled in the main from BBSIA, covers the years 1933 to 1998 inclusive. The cumulative volumes of the Bibliography offer an exhaustive author and title database of the burgeoning scholarship in this field.
Author : Michael D. Bailey
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810868644
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The A to Z of Witchcraft written by Michael D. Bailey and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great deal has been written about the history of witchcraft, but much of what has been written is unreliable, exaggerated, or inaccurate. This problem is especially acute in regard to modern witchcraft, or Wicca, and its supposed connections to historical witchcraft in medieval and early modern Europe. The A to Z of Witchcraft provides a reliable reference source for both academics and general readers interested in the actual historical development of witchcraft in the western world. The focus of the dictionary is on Western Europe during the late-medieval and early modern periods, when the specific idea of diabolical witchcraft developed and when the so-called 'great witch-hunts' occurred. Entries are also provided that deal with magic and witchcraft in the earlier Christian period and classical antiquity, as well as with the lingering belief in witchcraft in the modern world, and with the development of the modern, neo-pagan religion of witchcraft, also known as Wicca. For comparative purposes, some entries have been provided that deal with aspects and systems of magic found in other parts of the world that seem to bear some relation to the idea of witchcraft as it developed in Christian Europe. The regions dealt with are mainly Africa, along with such New-World practices as Voodoo and Santeria. Entries in the dictionary cover important people in the history of witchcraft, from the medieval inquisitors and early modern magistrates who developed the stereotype of the historical witch to the modern individuals who have developed the religion of Wicca. Also included are legal terms and concepts important to the prosecution of the supposed crime of witchcraft, and religious and theological concepts pertaining to the demonic elements that came to be associated with witchcraft, as well as more popular beliefs and aspects of common folklore and mythology that became attached to the developing idea of witchcraft. Geographic entries are also included, discussing the scope of witch-hunting in various regions of Europe and the world, and describing specific examples of major witch-hunts such as those that occurred in Salem, Massachusetts.
Author : Michael Resler
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843842661
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book German Romance: Lanzelet written by Michael Resler and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2003 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and facing translation of an important medieval German Arthurian romance. Ulrich von Zatzikhoven's Lanzelet, dating from the end of the twelfth century, is a verse translation into Middle High German of what was probably an Anglo-Norman romance, now lost. It presents the story of Lanzelet (Lancelot), but in quite a different version from Chrétien de Troyes' Chevalier de la charrette. The first half of the tale concerns Lanzelet's knightly and romantic exploits on his way to discovering his true identity, while at the same time winning the beautiful Iblis as his wife. The second half revolves around Lanzelet's efforts to defend the honor of the Arthurian court and reestablish his own and his wife's kingdoms. As in much literature of the time, sex, violence and magic abound. This volume presents the first full translation into English, with a new, facing edition of the Middle High German text. It is accompanied by an introduction, variant readings and notes to the translation. Kathleen J. Meyer teaches in the Department of Languages and Ethnic Studies, Bemidji State University.
Author : Michael David Bailey
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810848603
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Witchcraft written by Michael David Bailey and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only single-volume, scholarly reference work available on this subject, this dictionary provides reliable information on magic and witchcraft for the entire span of western history, from classical antiquity to modern Wicca. Particular attention is paid to the history of witchcraft in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries, the era of the great witch-hunts.
Author : Richard Walter Chamberlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Marvelous as Allegory in Ulrich Von Zatzikhoven's Lanzelet written by Richard Walter Chamberlin and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : British Library. Document Supply Centre
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 836 pages
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Download or read book Index of Conference Proceedings written by British Library. Document Supply Centre and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1428 pages
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Download or read book MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1420 pages
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Download or read book German books in print written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Werner Schröder
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Total Pages : 512 pages
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Download or read book Wolfram-Studien written by Werner Schröder and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Barry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521638753
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (387 download)
Download or read book Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe written by Jonathan Barry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-03-12 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important collection brings together both established figures and new researchers to offer fresh perspectives on the ever-controversial subject of the history of witchcraft. Using Keith Thomas's Religion and the Decline of Magic as a starting point, the contributors explore the changes of the last twenty-five years in the understanding of early modern witchcraft, and suggest new approaches, especially concerning the cultural dimensions of the subject. Witchcraft cases must be understood as power struggles, over gender and ideology as well as social relationships, with a crucial role played by alternative representations. Witchcraft was always a contested idea, never fully established in early modern culture but much harder to dislodge than has usually been assumed. The essays are European in scope, with examples from Germany, France, and the Spanish expansion into the New World, as well as a strong core of English material.
Author : Friedrich Wolfzettel
Publisher : de Gruyter
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Erzählstrukturen der Artusliteratur written by Friedrich Wolfzettel and published by de Gruyter. This book was released on 1999 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Artusforschung dient der Erschließung der gemeinsamen kulturellen Grundlagen Europas mit Blick auf eines der erfolgreichsten epischen Genres des europäischen Mittelalters. Bald nach ihren Anfängen wurde die Artusliteratur zu einem Feld der überregionalen Wertediskussion, der kulturellen Identitätsfindung oder des literarischen Experiments. Diese Texte und ihre kulturhistorische Bedeutung beleuchten die Bände der Reihe SIA aus der Perspektive verschiedener Philologien, jeweils fokussiert auf einen aktuell in der Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft diskutierten Begriff.
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Total Pages : 424 pages
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Download or read book MHJ written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
