Between The Devil And The Host

Author : Michael Ostling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191623592

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Outside the imagination, witches don't exist. But in Poland and in Europe and its colonies in the early modern period, people imagined their neighbours to be witches, with tragic results. For the first time in English, Michael Ostling tells the story of the imagined Polish witches, showing how ordinary peasant-women got caught in webs of suspicion and accusation, finally confessing under torture to the most heinous of crimes. Through a close reading of accusations and confessions, Ostling also shows how witches imagined themselves and their own religious lives. Paradoxically, the tales they tell of infanticide and host-desecration reveal to us a culture of deep Catholic piety, while the stories they tell of demonic sex and the treasure-bringing ghosts of unbaptized babies uncover a complex folklore at the margins of Christian orthodoxy. Caught between the devil and the host, the self-imagined Polish witches reflect the religion of their place and time, even as they stand accused of subverting and betraying that religion. Through the dark glass of witchcraft Ostling explores the religious lives of early modern women and men: their gender attitudes, their Christian faith and folk cosmology, their prayers and spells, their adoration of Christ incarnate in the transubstantiated Eucharist, and their relations with goblin-like house demons and ghosts.

Author : Michael Ostling
Publisher : Past & Present Book
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199587902

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For the first time in English, Michael Ostling tells the story of the imagined Polish witches, showing how ordinary peasant-women got caught in webs of suspicion and accusation, finally confessing under torture to the most heinous of crimes.

Author : Johannes Dillinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000765748

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The Routledge History of Witchcraft by Johannes Dillinger Pdf

The Routledge History of Witchcraft is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of the belief in witches from antiquity to the present day, providing both an introduction to the subject of witchcraft and an overview of the on-going debates. This extensive collection covers the entire breadth of the history of witchcraft, from the witches of Ancient Greece and medieval demonology through to the victims of the witch hunts, and onwards to children’s books, horror films, and modern pagans. Drawing on the knowledge and expertise of an international team of authors, the book examines differing concepts of witchcraft that still exist in society and explains their historical, literary, religious, and anthropological origin and development, including the reflections and adaptions of this belief in art and popular culture. The volume is divided into four chronological parts, beginning with Antiquity and the Middle Ages in Part One, Early Modern witch hunts in Part Two, modern concepts of witchcraft in Part Three, and ending with an examination of witchcraft and the arts in Part Four. Each chapter offers a glimpse of a different version of the witch, introducing the reader to the diversity of witches that have existed in different contexts throughout history. Exploring a wealth of texts and case studies and offering a broad geographical scope for examining this fascinating subject, The Routledge History of Witchcraft is essential reading for students and academics interested in the history of witchcraft.

Author : Andrew Pettegree
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004340312

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Broadsheets by Andrew Pettegree Pdf

This volume offers an expansive survey of the role of single-sheet publishing in the European print industry during the first two centuries after the invention of printing. Drawing on new materials made available during the compilation of the Universal Short Title Catalogue, the twenty contributors explore the extraordinary range of broadsheet publishing and its contribution to government, pedagogy, religious devotion and entertainment culture. Long disregarded as ephemera or cheap print, broadsheets emerge both as a crucial communication medium and an essential underpinning of the economics of the publishing industry.

Author : W. Wyporska
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137384218

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Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland, 1500-1800 by W. Wyporska Pdf

This comprehensive study examines Polish demonology in relation to witchcraft trials in Wielkopolska, revealing the witch as a force for both good and evil. It explores the use of witchcraft, the nature of accusations and the role of gender.

Author : Paul R. Ehrlich,Ilkka Hanski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 0198035942

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On the Wings of Checkerspots by Paul R. Ehrlich,Ilkka Hanski Pdf

Hanski, a leading thinker in metapopulation ecology, studies checkerspot butterfly populations in Finland. Ehrlich, one of the leading ecologists and conservation biologist, investigates checkerspot butterfly populations in California. This book reports on and synthsizes the major long-term research of both workers' careers on the population biology of checkerspot butterflies.

Author : Laura Kounine
Publisher : Emotions in History
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198799085

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Imagining the Witch by Laura Kounine Pdf

The Holy Roman Empire was the heartland of the witch craze, with around 23,000 witches executed in the early modern period. In this book, Laura Kounine uses case studies of witch trials in early modern Wurttemberg to examine how people sought to identify witches, and the ways in which ordinary men and women fought for their life to avoid the stake.

Author : Louis M. Schoonhoven,Joop J. A. van Loon,Marcel Dicke
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191545825

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Insect-Plant Biology by Louis M. Schoonhoven,Joop J. A. van Loon,Marcel Dicke Pdf

Half of all insect species are dependent on living plant tissues, consuming about 10% of plant annual production in natural habitats and an even greater percentage in agricultural systems, despite sophisticated control measures. Plants possess defences that are effective against almost all herbivorous insect species. Host-plant specialization, observed in over 80% of these animals, appears to be an effective adaptation to breach these defence systems. The mechanisms underlying plant defence to invading herbivores on the one side, and insect adaptations to utilize plants for nutrition, defence and shelter on the other, are the main subjects of this book. In the case of plants exposed to insect herbivores, they include the activation of defence systems in order to minimize damage, as well as the emission of chemical signals that may attract natural enemies of the invading herbivores and may be exploited by neighbouring plants that mount defences as well. For insects, they include complex bevioural adaptations and their underlying sensory systems (with their implications for learning and nutritional plasticity), as well as the endocrinological aspects of life cycle synchronization with host-plant phenology. Insect-Plant Biology discusses the operation of these mechanisms at the molecular and organismal levels and explicitly puts these in the context of both ecological interactions and evolutionary processes. In doing so, it uncovers the highly intricate antagonistic as well as mutualistic interactions that have evolved between plants and insects. The book concludes with a chapter on the application of our knowledge of insect-plant interactions to agricultural production. This multidisciplinary approach will appeal to students in biology, agricultural entomology, ecology, and indeed anyone interested in the principles underlying the relationships between the two largest groups of organisms on earth: plants and insects.

Author : Susan Mopper,Sharon Y. Strauss
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781475709025

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Genetic Structure and Local Adaptation in Natural Insect Populations by Susan Mopper,Sharon Y. Strauss Pdf

Providing an essential foundation for evolutionary theory, this comprehensive volume examines patterns of genetic variation within natural insect populations, and explores the underlying mechanisms that lead to the genetic divergence of coexisting organisms. In particular, the text investigates current research on finescale genetic structure in natural insect populations. Internationally renowned scientists offer a wealth of current information not previously published. Part I present case studies of adaptive genetic structure in natural insect populations, including a critical discussion of the strenghts and weaknesses of the experimental methods employed. Part II addresses the ecological mechanisms that produce adaptive genetic structure in natural insect populations. Part III describes how behavioral and life-history patterns influence genetic structure. Finally, Part IV combines theoretical and empirical approaches linking genetic structure at the population level with larger-scale patterns of variation, such as host race formation and speciation. This broad-ranging, interdisciplinary source of information supplies a thorough examination of the mechanisms that promote and impede genetic structure in natural insect populations. It is a book that will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students, and to researchers in the fields of ecology, evolution, insect and plant systems, entomology, and population genetics.

Author : Gabor Karsai,Eelco Visser
Publisher : Springer
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540301752

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Generative Programming and Component Engineering by Gabor Karsai,Eelco Visser Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering, GPCE 2004, held in Vancouver, Canada in October 2004. The 25 revised full papers presented together with abstracts of 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on aspect-orientation, staged programming, types for meta-programming, meta-programming, model-driven approaches, product lines, and domain-specific languages and generation.

Author : Erich Städler,Martine Rowell-Rahier,Robert Baur
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400917200

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Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Insect-Plant Relationships by Erich Städler,Martine Rowell-Rahier,Robert Baur Pdf

The 9th International Symposium on Insect-Plant Relationships (SIP-9) was once more, following the tradition established in 1958, a forum for investigators in both basic and applied entomology interested in the important and fascinating field of interactions between plants and insects. We were pleased and honoured to organise this symposium, which took place June 24--30, 1995 in Gwatt on the shores of the Lake of Thun in Switzerland. 168 participants from 26 countries from all over the world actively took part in the symposium by contributing 12 key-note lectures and a total of 141 oral presentations and posters. The favourable response and the lively interaction of the participants in all symposium activities is the clearest indication of the success of SIP-9. The organisers appreciated the enthusiasm and the willingness to collaborate shown by all participants. The following volume contains written contributions (72) of only half of all presentations. This is due to the fact that we decided to produce not only an account of the proceedings but also to publish all contributions as a special volume of the journal Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata. This procedure was last adopted in 1978 for SIP-4, organised by Reginald F. Chapman and Elizabeth A. Bernays, and ensures a wide distribution of the papers within the scientific community and easy access through libraries. Inevitably we had to employ the same review procedure as applicable for the manuscripts regularly submitted to Entomologia.

Author : Jenna Black
Publisher : Dell
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553590456

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The Devil You Know by Jenna Black Pdf

Morgan Kingsley, an exorcist with an attitude, returns in this paranormal fantasy follow-up to "The Devil Inside"--but this time a demon is living inside her and Morgan must do everything she can to protect him for the sake of herself and humanity. Original.

Author : Carl Glick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3346637

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The Devil's Host by Carl Glick Pdf

Author : Jeffrey Burton Russell
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781501703324

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The Prince of Darkness by Jeffrey Burton Russell Pdf

The Devil, Satan, Lucifer, Mephistopheles - throughout history the Prince of Darkness, the Western world's most powerful symbol of evil, has taken many names and shapes. Jeffrey Burton Russell here chronicles the remarkable story of the Devil from antiquity to the present. While recounting how past generations have personified evil, he deepens our understanding of the ways in which people have dealt with the enduring problem of radical evil.After a compelling essay on the nature of evil, Russell uncovers the origins of the concept of the Devil in various early cultures and then traces its evolution in Western thought from the time of the ancient Hebrews through the first centuries of the Christian era. Next he turns to the medieval view of the Devil, focusing on images found in folklore, scholastic thought, art, literature, mysticism, and witchcraft. Finally, he follows the Devil into our own era, where he draws on examples from theology, philosophy, art, literature, and popular culture to describe the great changes in this traditional notion of evil brought about by the intellectual and cultural developments of modern times.Is the Devil an outmoded superstition, as most educated people today believe? Or do the horrors of the twentieth century and the specter of nuclear war make all too clear the continuing need for some vital symbol of radical evil? A single-volume distillation of Russell's epic tetralogy on the nature and personifcation of evil from ancient times to the present (published by Cornell University Press between 1977 and 1986), The Prince of Darkness invites readers to confront these and other critical questions as they explore the past faces of that figure who has been called the second most famous personage in Christianity.

Author : William Wallace
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136542688

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Michaelangelo: Selected Readings by William Wallace Pdf

Michaelangelo: Selected Readings is the long-awaited condensation of the five volume English article collection of Michaelangelo's life. Selections include: Life and Early Works; The Sistine Chapel; San Lorenzo; Tomb of Julius II and Other Works in Rome; and Drawings, Poetry and Miscellaneous Studies.