Author : Norman Cohn
Publisher : Plume
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1977-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0452007615
Europe's Inner Demons
Norman Cohn
Europe S Inner Demons
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Europe's Inner Demons
Norman Cohn
Author : Norman Cohn
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0226113078
Europe's Inner Demons by Norman Cohn Pdf
Europe's Inner Demons is a fascinating history of the irrational need to imagine witches and an investigation of how those fantasies made the persecutions of the middle ages possible. In addition, Norman Cohn's discovery that some influential sources on European witch trials were forgeries has revolutionized the field of witchcraft, making this one of the most essential books ever written on the subject.
Europe's Inner Demons
Norman Cohn
Author : Norman Cohn
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : UOM:39015047539351
Europe's Inner Demons by Norman Cohn Pdf
Europe's Inner Demons: An Enquiry Inspired by the Great Witch-Hunt is a historical study of the beliefs regarding European witchcraft in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, with particular reference to the development of the witches' sabbat and its influence on the witch trials in the Early Modern period. Within the book, Cohn argues that there never were any Devil-worshiping witches in Early Modern Europe, and that all of those persecuted for being so were innocent. In this he specifically rejects the Witch-cult hypothesis put forward by English scholar Margaret Murray, which argued that there really had been a witch-cult religion which had been pre-Christian in origin. Cohn notes that accusations of worshiping a beast-headed deity, eating children and committing incest were not new to the witches of Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, but had originally been leveled at Jews in the first century and then at Christians in the second, before being reused against Christian heretical sects like the Waldensians and the Knights Templar during the Late Medieval.
Europe's Inner Demons
Norman Cohn
Author : Norman Cohn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Demonology
ISBN : 0586082352
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European Witch Trials
Richard Kieckhefer
Author : Richard Kieckhefer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520320581
European Witch Trials by Richard Kieckhefer Pdf
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.
Exorcising our Demons: Magic, Witchcraft and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe
Charles Zika
Author : Charles Zika
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004475915
Exorcising our Demons: Magic, Witchcraft and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe by Charles Zika Pdf
This collection of sixteen essays deals with the role of magic, religion and witchcraft in European culture, 1450-1650, and the critical role of the visual in that culture. It covers the relationship of humanism and magic; the intersection of religious ritual, orthodoxy and power; the discursive links between the visual language of witchcraft and contemporary anxieties about sexuality and savagery. The introductory chapter urges us to exorcise our tendency to reduce historical experiences of the demonic to forms of unreason created in a distant past. Only then can we understand the role of the demonic in our historical definition of the self and the other. Richly illustrated with 112 images, the book will interest historians and art historians.
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Steven Pinker
Author : Steven Pinker
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780143122012
The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker Pdf
Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think this is the most violent age ever seen. Yet as bestselling author Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true.
The Malleus Maleficarum
Heinrich Institoris
Author : Heinrich Institoris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000116720180
The Malleus Maleficarum by Heinrich Institoris Pdf
This title offers a new translation of the medieval treatise on witchcraft, the Malleus Maleficarum, by the Dominican inquisitor Heinrich Institoris.
Europes Inner Demons
Norman Cohn
Author : Norman Cohn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:875706677
Europes Inner Demons by Norman Cohn Pdf
Daemons Are Forever
David Gordon White
Author : David Gordon White
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226715063
Daemons Are Forever by David Gordon White Pdf
A richly illustrated tapestry of interwoven studies spanning some six thousand years of history, Dæmons Are Forever is at once a record of archaic contacts and transactions between humans and protean spirit beings—dæmons—and an account of exchanges, among human populations, of the science of spirit beings: dæmonology. Since the time of the Indo-European migrations, and especially following the opening of the Silk Road, a common dæmonological vernacular has been shared among populations ranging from East and South Asia to Northern Europe. In this virtuoso work of historical sleuthing, David Gordon White recovers the trajectories of both the “inner demons” cohabiting the bodies of their human hosts and the “outer dæmons” that those same humans recognized each time they encountered them in their enchanted haunts: sylvan pools, sites of geothermal eruptions, and dark forest groves. Along the way, he invites his readers to reconsider the potential and promise of the historical method in religious studies, suggesting that a “connected histories” approach to Eurasian dæmonology may serve as a model for restoring history to its proper place at the heart of the discipline of the history of religions.
Cosmos, Chaos, and the World to Come
Norman Cohn,Professor Norman Cohn
Author : Norman Cohn,Professor Norman Cohn
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300090889
Cosmos, Chaos, and the World to Come by Norman Cohn,Professor Norman Cohn Pdf
All over the world people look forward to a perfect future, when the forces of good will be finally victorious over the forces of evil. Once this was a radically new way of imagining the destiny of the world and of mankind. How did it originate, and what kind of world-view preceded it? In this engrossing book, the author of the classic work The Pursuit of the Millennium takes us on a journey of exploration, through the world-views of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and India, through the innovations of Iranian and Jewish prophets and sages, to the earliest Christian imaginings of heaven on earth. Until around 1500 B.C., it was generally believed that once the world had been set in order by the gods, it was in essence immutable. However, it was always a troubled world. By means of flood and drought, famine and plague, defeat in war, and death itself, demonic forces threatened and impaired it. Various combat myths told how a divine warrior kept the forces of chaos at bay and enabled the world to survive. Sometime between 1500 and 1200 B.C., the Iranian prophet Zoroaster broke from that static yet anxious world-view, reinterpreting the Iranian version of the combat myth. For Zoroaster, the world was moving, through incessant conflict, toward a conflictless state--"cosmos without chaos." The time would come when, in a prodigious battle, the supreme god would utterly defeat the forces of chaos and their human allies and eliminate them forever, and so bring an absolutely good world into being. Cohn reveals how this vision of the future was taken over by certain Jewish groups, notably the Jesus sect, with incalculable consequences. Deeply informed yet highly readable, this magisterial book illumines a major turning-point in the history of human consciousness. It will be mandatory reading for all who appreciated The Pursuit of the Millennium.
Europe's Inner Demons
Norman Cohn
Author : Norman Cohn
Publisher : Random House
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781448103935
Europe's Inner Demons by Norman Cohn Pdf
In this ground-breaking book, Professor Norman Cohn traces popular beliefs about witches to their origins. He examines the fantasies that inspired the great European witch-hunt of the 16th and 17th centuries when thousands of innocent people were tortured and burned alive. It is a fascinating history of the need to imagine antihuman conspiracies and an investigation of how those fantasies made the great European witch-hunt possible. In addition, Professor Cohn's discovery that some influential sources on witch trials were forgeries has revolutionized the field of witchcraft studies, making this one of the most essential books ever written on the subject.
European Witch Trials
Richard Kieckhefer
Author : Richard Kieckhefer
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520320574
European Witch Trials by Richard Kieckhefer Pdf
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.
Women Who Fly
Serinity Young
Author : Serinity Young
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190659707
Women Who Fly by Serinity Young Pdf
From the beautiful apsaras of Hindu myth to the swan maidens of European fairy tales, stories of flying women-some carried by wings, others by clouds, rainbows, floating scarves, and flying horses-reveal the perennial fascination with and ambivalence about female power and sexuality. In Women Who Fly, Serinity Young examines the motif of the flying woman as it appears in a wide variety of cultures and historical periods, in legends, myths, rituals, sacred narratives, and artistic productions. She considers supernatural women like the Valkyries of Norse legend, who transport men to immortality; winged deities like the Greek goddesses Iris and Nike; figures of terror like the Furies, witches, and succubi; airborne Christian mystics; and wayward, dangerous women like Lilith and Morgan le Fay. Looking beyond the supernatural, Young examines the modern mythology surrounding twentieth-century female aviators like Amelia Earhart and Hanna Reitsch. Throughout, Young demonstrates that female power has always been inextricably linked with female sexuality and that the desire to control it is a pervasive theme in these stories. This is vividly depicted, for example, in the twelfth-century Niebelungenlied, in which the proud warrior-queen Brünnhilde loses her great physical strength when she is tricked into surrendering her virginity. Even in the twentieth-century the same idea is reflected in the exploits of the comic book and film character Wonder Woman who, Young suggests, retains her physical strength only because her love for fellow aviator Steve Trevor goes unrequited. The first book to systematically chronicle the figure of the flying woman in myth, literature, art, and pop culture, Women Who Fly offers a fresh look at the ways in which women have both influenced and been understood by society and religious traditions throughout the ages and around the world.
The Pursuit Of The Millennium
Norman Cohn
Author : Norman Cohn
Publisher : Random House
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781448103942
The Pursuit Of The Millennium by Norman Cohn Pdf
The Middle Ages inherited from Antiquity a tradition of prophesy and gave it fresh and exuberant life. This tradition foretold a Millennium in which humanity would enjoy a new Paradise on earth, free of suffering and sin - a Kingdom of the Saints. Generation after generation was intermittently seized by a tense expectation of some sudden, miraculous event in which the world would be utterly transformed. Often these expectations became enmeshed with social unrest and movements arose which sent tremors through the massive structure of medieval society. Drawing on a huge variety of contemporary sources, this unique and compelling book tells the story of those Millenarian fanaticisms of the Middle Ages and points to their persistence in the modern world.