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Enchanted Europe
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Author : Euan Cameron
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2010-03-18
Enchanted Europe written by Euan Cameron and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-18 with History categories.
Since the dawn of history people have used charms and spells to try to control their environment, and forms of divination to try to foresee the otherwise unpredictable chances of life. Many of these techniques were called 'superstitious' by educated elites. For centuries religious believers used 'superstition' as a term of abuse to denounce another religion that they thought inferior, or to criticize their fellow-believers for practising their faith 'wrongly'. From the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, scholars argued over what 'superstition' was, how to identify it, and how to persuade people to avoid it. Learned believers in demons and witchcraft, in their treatises and sermons, tried to make 'rational' sense of popular superstitions by blaming them on the deceptive tricks of seductive demons. Every major movement in Christian thought, from rival schools of medieval theology through to the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Enlightenment, added new twists to the debates over superstition. Protestants saw Catholics as superstitious, and vice versa. Enlightened philosophers mocked traditional cults as superstitions. Eventually, the learned lost their worry about popular belief, and turned instead to chronicling and preserving 'superstitious' customs as folklore and ethnic heritage. Enchanted Europe is the first comprehensive, integrated account of western Europe's long, complex dialogue with its own folklore and popular beliefs. Drawing on many little-known and rarely used texts, Euan Cameron constructs a compelling narrative of the rise, diversification, and decline of popular 'superstition' in the European mind.
Early Modern Europe
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Author : Brian Jeffrey Maxson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2023-06-15
Early Modern Europe written by Brian Jeffrey Maxson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-15 with History categories.
Through the exploration of nine common myths about the history and culture of early modern Europe, roughly 1350–1700, this book uses common assumptions to introduce newcomers to the period and its key figures, developments, and events. Many myths about early modern Europe originated in the 19th and 20th centuries and continue to appear today across popular media. In recent years, such popular documentaries and television shows as Game of Thrones have tended to reinforce what we think we know about the world during the early modern period. Early modern Europe birthed the modern world-just not in the way we think it did. This installment in the Facts and Fictions series utilizes primary sources to interrogate popular beliefs about early modern Europe and reveal the true story behind such movements and events as the Scientific Revolution, the Crusades, and the European witch hunts. Focusing on how perceptions of these events have shifted and evolved through history, this book is an excellent resource for students of this period as well as general readers interested in understanding what really happened during this time.
Europe To The Max
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Author : Rudy Maxa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Europe To The Max written by Rudy Maxa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Como, Lake (Italy) categories.
Rudy Maxa guides viewers through Italy offering invaluable travel tips.
Knowledge And Religion In Early Modern Europe
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2013-03-22
Knowledge And Religion In Early Modern Europe written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-22 with History categories.
This collection of essays examines interplays of knowledge and religion in early modern thought. Spanning from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, it considers varied formations of knowledge and religion, knowledge about religion(s) and irreligious knowledge in early modern Europe.
Witch Politics In Early Modern Europe 1400 1800
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Author : Stephan Quensel
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-06-26
Witch Politics In Early Modern Europe 1400 1800 written by Stephan Quensel and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-26 with History categories.
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.
Food Religion And Communities In Early Modern Europe
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Author : Christopher Kissane
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-06-14
Food Religion And Communities In Early Modern Europe written by Christopher Kissane and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-14 with History categories.
Using a three-part structure focused on the major historical subjects of the Inquisition, the Reformation and witchcraft, Christopher Kissane examines the relationship between food and religion in early modern Europe. Food, Religion and Communities in Early Modern Europe employs three key case studies in Castile, Zurich and Shetland to explore what food can reveal about the wider social and cultural history of early modern communities undergoing religious upheaval. Issues of identity, gender, cultural symbolism and community relations are analysed in a number of different contexts. The book also surveys the place of food in history and argues the need for historians not only to think more about food, but also with food in order to gain novel insights into historical issues. This is an important study for food historians and anyone seeking to understand the significant issues and events in early modern Europe from a fresh perspective.
Dissimulation And Deceit In Early Modern Europe
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Author : Miriam Eliav-Feldon
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-09-29
Dissimulation And Deceit In Early Modern Europe written by Miriam Eliav-Feldon and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-29 with History categories.
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.
Blackening Europe
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Author : Heike Raphael-Hernandez
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2004
Blackening Europe written by Heike Raphael-Hernandez and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Devil S Art
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Author : Jason P. Coy
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2020-06-04
The Devil S Art written by Jason P. Coy and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-04 with History categories.
In early modern Germany, soothsayers known as wise women and men roamed the countryside. Fixtures of village life, they identified thieves and witches, read palms, and cast horoscopes. German villagers regularly consulted these fortune-tellers and practiced divination in their everyday lives. Jason Phillip Coy brings their enchanted world to life by examining theological discourse alongside archival records of prosecution for popular divination in Thuringia, a diverse region in central Germany divided into a patchwork of princely territories, imperial cities, small towns, and rural villages. Popular divination faced centuries of elite condemnation, as the Lutheran clergy attempted to suppress these practices in the wake of the Reformation and learned elites sought to eradicate them during the Enlightenment. As Coy finds, both of these reform efforts failed, and divination remained a prominent feature of rural life in Thuringia until well into the nineteenth century. The century after 1550 saw intense confessional conflict accompanied by widespread censure and disciplinary measures, with prominent Lutheran theologians and demonologists preaching that divination was a demonic threat to the Christian community and that soothsayers deserved the death penalty. Rulers, however, refused to treat divination as a capital crime, and the populace continued to embrace it alongside official Christianity in troubled times. The Devil’s Art highlights the limits of Reformation-era disciplinary efforts and demonstrates the extent to which reformers’ efforts to inculcate new cultural norms relied upon the support of secular authorities and the acquiescence of parishioners. Negotiation, accommodation, and local resistance blunted official reform efforts and ensured that occult activities persisted and even flourished in Germany into the modern era, surviving Reformation-era preaching and Enlightenment-era ridicule alike. Studies in Early Modern German History
Angels Of Light Sanctity And The Discernment Of Spirits In The Early Modern Period
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Author : Clare Copeland
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2012-11-23
Angels Of Light Sanctity And The Discernment Of Spirits In The Early Modern Period written by Clare Copeland and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-23 with Religion categories.
This volume explores individual responses to the problem of discernment of spirits, and the adjacent problem of true and false holiness in the period following the European Reformations.