La strega, la luna, il solstizio
Author | : Franco Cardini |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9788884740267 |
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Author | : Franco Cardini |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9788884740267 |
Author | : Marina Montesano |
Publisher | : MDPI |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2020-05-20 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3039289594 |
Witchcraft and magic are topics of enduring interest for many reasons. The main one lies in their extraordinary interdisciplinarity: anthropologists, folklorists, historians, and more have contributed to build a body of work of extreme variety and consistence. Of course, this also means that the subjects themselves are not easy to assess. In a very general way, we can define witchcraft as a supernatural means to cause harm, death, or misfortune, while magic also belongs to the field of supernatural, or at least esoteric knowledge, but can be used to less dangerous effects (e.g., divination and astrology). In Western civilization, however, the witch hunt has set a very peculiar perspective in which diabolical witchcraft, the invention of the Sabbat, the persecution of many thousands of (mostly) female and (sometimes) male presumed witches gave way to a phenomenon that is fundamentally different from traditional witchcraft. This Special Issue of Religions dedicated to Witchcraft, Demonology, and Magic features nine articles that deal with four different regions of Europe (England, Germany, Hungary, and Italy) between Late Medieval and Modern times in different contexts and social milieus. Far from pretending to offer a complete picture, they focus on some topics that are central to the research in those fields and fit well in the current “cumulative concept of Western witchcraft” that rules out all mono-causality theories, investigating a plurality of causes.
Author | : Marina Montesano |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2018-07-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3319920782 |
This book explores the relationships between ancient witchcraft and its modern incarnation, and by doing so fills an important gap in the historiography. It is often noted that stories of witchcraft circulated in Greek and Latin classical texts, and that treatises dealing with witch-beliefs referenced them. Still, the role of humanistic culture and classical revival in the developing of the witch-hunts has not yet been fully researched. Marina Montesano examines Greek and Latin literature, revealing how particular features of ancient striges were carried into the Late Middle Ages, through the Renaissance and into the fifteenth century, when early Italian trials recall the myth of the strix common in ancient Latin sources and in popular memory. The final chapter also serves as a conclusion, to show how in Renaissance Italy and beyond, classical accounts of witchcraft ceased to be just stories, as they had formerly been, and were instead used to attest to the reality of witches’ powers.
Author | : Marina Montesano |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2021-08-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000430278 |
This volume offers 18 studies linked together by a common focus on the circulation and reception of motifs and beliefs in the field of folklore, magic, and witchcraft. The chapters traverse a broad spectrum both chronologically and thematically; yet together, their shared focus on cultural exchange and encounters emerges in an important way, revealing a valuable methodology that goes beyond the pure comparativism that has dominated historiography in recent decades. Several of the chapters touch on gender relations and contact between different religious faiths, using case studies to explore the variety of these encounters. Whilst the essays focus geographically on Europe, they prefer to investigate relationships over highlighting singular, local traits. In this way, the collection aims to respond to the challenge set by recent debates in cultural studies, for a global history that prioritises inclusivity, moving beyond biased or learned attachments toward broader and broadening foci and methods. With analysis of sources from manuscripts and archival documents to iconography, and drawing on writings in Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, and other languages, this volume is essential reading for all students and scholars interested in cultural exchange and ideas about folklore, magic, and witchcraft in medieval and early modern Europe.
Author | : Giuseppe Dessì |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Italian fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Adriaan Verhulst |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2002-10-17 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521004749 |
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Author | : Paolo Delogu |
Publisher | : Bristol Classical Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2002-09-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
An introduction to the sources, methods and theories most used by historians, this book explores the origins of the idea of the 'middle ages' and its development in Renaissance and modern European historical discourse, the problem of periodisation and the principal themes of modern historiography.
Author | : Keith R.A. DeCandido |
Publisher | : HarperEntertainment |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-08-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780061435034 |
Twenty-two years ago, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. In the years after, their father, John, taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America . . . and he taught them how to kill it. Sam and Dean are headed for Key West, Florida, home to Hemingway, hurricanes, and a whole lot of demons. The tropical town has so many ghouls on the loose that one of its main moneymakers has long been a series of ghost tours. But the tours are no more, not since one of the guides was found dead of an apparent heart attack . . . his face frozen in mid-scream. No one knows what horrors he saw, but the Winchester brothers are about to find out. Soon they'll be face-to-face with the ghosts of the island's most infamous residents, demons with a hidden agenda, and a mysterious ancient power looking for revenge. It's up to Sam and Dean to save the citizens of Key West . . . before the beautiful island is reduced to nothing more than a pile of bones.
Author | : Lewis Mumford |
Publisher | : New York : Harcourt, Brace |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Civilization, Modern |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Christoph Auffarth |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004126686 |
Fall of the Angels focuses on a biblical tradition whose significance has been recognised, elaborated and explored in literature and art outside the Bible. Its extensive influence on religion and culture during the last two millenia is reflected in the wide variety of interpretations of this tradition among communities as they came to terms with religious identity in the face of opposition.