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Author : Richard Raiswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Christian heresies
ISBN : 0772721254
Author : Peter Jonathan Dendle,Richard Raiswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Christian heresies
ISBN : 0772721246
Acknowledgements : "The articles in this book all originated as papers presented at the "Devil in Society in the Pre-Modern World", an international, multi-disciplinary and multi-university conference held at Victoria University in the University of Toronto between 17 and 18 October 2008..."
Author : Andrew D. McCarthy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317050674
Engaging with fiction and history-and reading both genres as texts permeated with early modern anxieties, desires, and apprehensions-this collection scrutinizes the historical intersection of early modern European superstitions and English stage literature. Contributors analyze the cultural mechanisms that shape, preserve, and transmit beliefs. They investigate where superstitions come from and how they are sustained and communicated within early modern European society. It has been proposed by scholars that once enacted on stage and thus brought into contact with the literary-dramatic perspective, belief systems that had been preserved and reinforced by historical-literary texts underwent a drastic change. By highlighting the connection between historical-literary and literary-dramatic culture, this volume tests and explores the theory that performance of superstitions opened the way to disbelief.
Author : Miriam Eliav-Feldon,Tamar Herzig
Publisher : Springer
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137447494
In this book, twelve scholars of early modern history analyse various categories and cases of deception and false identity in the age of geographical discoveries and of forced conversions: from two-faced conversos to serial converts, from demoniacs to stigmatics, and from self-appointed ambassadors to lying cosmographer.
Author : Lyndal Roper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134845491
This bold and imaginative book marks out a different route towards understanding the body, and its relationship to culture and subjectivity. Amongst other subjects, Lyndal Roper deals with the nature of masculinity and feminity.
Author : Stephan Quensel
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 763 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9783658414122
Why does an entire society believe that there are witches who must be burned? What roles did the emerging 'state', the professions of clerics and jurists, and the public involved play in each case? And how could this project be completed? From a sociological point of view, the findings of recent international research on witches provide a model of a more general, highly ambivalent, 'pastoral' attitude, according to which a shepherd has to care for the welfare of his flock as well as for its erring sheep. The first main part describes the clerical initial situation, which developed the 'Dominican' demonological model of witchcraft on the basis of the still dominant magico-religious mentality in the 15th century. A model, according to the second part of the book, which then in the course of the 16th century in Western Europe increasingly fell into the hands of the not so innocent jurists. From there it developed into a legal witch persecution that realized the early European witch model from the village witch to the mass persecutions to the late child witches. The third part describes how witch persecutions slowly became less important towards the end of the 17th century as a general witchcraft 'politics' game in the transition from a confessional state to a (court) 'civil service' state.
Author : Julian Goodare,Rita Voltmer,Liv Helene Willumsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000080803
Demonology – the intellectual study of demons and their powers – contributed to the prosecution of thousands of witches. But how exactly did intellectual ideas relate to prosecutions? Recent scholarship has shown that some of the demonologists’ concerns remained at an abstract intellectual level, while some of the judges’ concerns reflected popular culture. This book brings demonology and witch-hunting back together, while placing both topics in their specific regional cultures. The book’s chapters, each written by a leading scholar, cover most regions of Europe, from Scandinavia and Britain through to Germany, France and Switzerland, and Italy and Spain. By focusing on various intellectual levels of demonology, from sophisticated demonological thought to the development of specific demonological ideas and ideas within the witch trial environment, the book offers a thorough examination of the relationship between demonology and witch-hunting. Demonology and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe is essential reading for all students and researchers of the history of demonology, witch-hunting and early modern Europe.
Author : Sari Katajala-Peltomaa
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198850465
Demonic possession was a spiritual state that often had physical symptoms; however, in Demonic Possession and Lived Religion in Later Medieval Europe, Sari Katajala-Peltomaa argues that demonic possession was a social phenomenon which should be understood with regard to the community and culture. She focuses on significant case studies from canonization processes (c. 1240-1450) which show how each set of sources formed its own specific context, in which demonic presence derived from different motivations, reasonings, and methods of categorization. The chosen perspective is that of lived religion, which is both a thematic approach and a methodology: a focus on rituals, symbols, and gestures, as well as sensitivity to nuances and careful contextualizing of the cases are constitutive elements of the argumentation. The analysis contests the hierarchy between the 'learned' and the 'popular' within religion, as well as the existence of a strict polarity between individual and collective religious participation. Demonic presence disclosed negotiations over authority and agency; it shows how the personal affected the communal, and vice versa, and how they were eventually transformed into discourses and institutions of the Church; that is, definitions of the miraculous and the diabolical. Geographically, the volume covers Western Europe, comparing Northern and Southern material and customs. The structure follows the logic of the phenomenon, beginning with the background reasons offered as a cause of demonic possession, continuing with communities' responses and emotions, including construction of sacred caregiving methods. Finally, the ways in which demonic presence contributed to wider societal debates in the fields of politics and spirituality are discussed. Alterity and inversion of identity, gender, and various forms of corporeality and the interplay between the sacred and diabolical are themes that run all through the volume.
Author : Michelle D. Brock,Richard Raiswell,David R. Winter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319757384
This book explores the manifold ways of knowing—and knowing about— preternatural beings such as demons, angels, fairies, and other spirits that inhabited and were believed to act in early modern European worlds. Its contributors examine how people across the social spectrum assayed the various types of spiritual entities that they believed dwelled invisibly but meaningfully in the spaces just beyond (and occasionally within) the limits of human perception. Collectively, the volume demonstrates that an awareness and understanding of the nature and capabilities of spirits—whether benevolent or malevolent—was fundamental to the knowledge-making practices that characterize the years between ca. 1500 and 1750. This is, therefore, a book about how epistemological and experiential knowledge of spirits persisted and evolved in concert with the wider intellectual changes of the early modern period, such as the Protestant Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment.
Author : Francis Young
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319291123
This book traces the development of exorcism in Catholic Christianity from the fourth century to the present day, and seeks to explain why exorcism is still so much in demand. This is the first work in English to trace the development of the liturgy, practice and authorisation of exorcisms in Latin Christianity. The rite of exorcism, and the claim by Roman Catholic priests to be able to drive demons from the possessed, remains an enduring source of popular fascination, but the origins and history of this controversial rite have been little explored. Arguing that belief in the need for exorcism typically re-emerges at periods of crisis for the church, Francis Young explores the shifting boundaries between authorised exorcisms and unauthorised magic throughout Christian history, from Augustine of Hippo to Pope Francis. This book offers the historical background to – and suggests reasons for – the current resurgence of exorcism in the global Catholic Church.
Author : Irit Ruth Kleiman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137397065
Twelve medieval scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including law, literature, and religion address the question: What did it mean to possess a voice - or to be without one - during the Middle Ages? This collection reveals how the philosophy, theology, and aesthetics of the voice inhabit some of the most canonical texts of the Middle Ages.
Author : Richard Raiswell,David R. Winter
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442634183
The Medieval Devil is a unique collection of primary sources that examines the development of medieval society through the lens of how people perceived the devil. In exploring where and how Europeans discerned his presence, detected his machinations, and sought to counter his actions, readers will be afforded a new and important point of entry into medieval history. Each chapter begins with an introduction to familiarize readers with critical issues and to contextualize the primary sources against broader developments of the period. Questions for discussion and reflection, twelve black-and-white illustrations, and a short bibliography are included.
Author : M. Tausiet
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137355881
Drawing on the graphic and revealing evidence recorded by the different courts in early modern Saragossa, this book captures the spirit of an age when religious faith vied for people's hearts and minds with centuries-old beliefs in witchcraft and superstition.
Author : Robin Netherton,Gale R. Owen-Crocker,Monica L. Wright
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781783270026
A wide-ranging and varied collection of essays which examine surviving garments, methods of production and clothes in society.
Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843845836
The legend of the Frankish emperor Charlemagne is widespread through the literature of the European Middle Ages. This book offers a detailed and critical analysis of how this myth emerged and developed in medieval German and Dutch literatures, bringing to light the vast array of narratives either idealizing, if not glorifying, Charlemagne as a political and religious leader, or, at times, criticizing or even ridiculing him as a pompous and ineffectual ruler. The motif is traced from its earliest origins in chronicles, in the Kaiserchronik, through the Rolandslied and Der Stricker's Karl der Große, to his recasting as a saint in the Zürcher Buch vom Heiligen Karl.
