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Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - Couverture souple

Clark, Stuart; Ankarloo, Bengt

 
9780812217063: Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
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ISBN 10 : 0812217063 ISBN 13 : 9780812217063
Editeur : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999

Synopsis

The roots of European witchcraft and magic lie in Hebrew and other ancient Near Eastern cultures and in the Celtic, Nordic, and Germanic traditions of the Continent. For two millennia, European folklore and ritual have been imbued with the belief in the supernatural, yielding a rich trove of histories and images.

A series that combines traditional approaches of political, legal, and social historians with critical syntheses of cultural anthropology, historical psychology, and gender studies, Witchcraft and Magic in Europe provides a modern, scholarly survey of the supernatural beliefs of Europeans from ancient times to the present day. Each of the six volumes in the series contains the work of distinguished scholars chosen for their expertise in a particular era or region.

The eighteenth century saw the end of witch trials everywhere. The authors chart the process of and reasons for the decriminalization of witchcraft, but also challenge the widespread assumption that Europe then became "disenchanted." Here for the first time are surveys of the social role of witchcraft in European communities, as well as a full treatment of Victorian supernaturalism and of the continued importance of witchcraft and magic as topics of debate among intellectuals and other writers.

Other volumes in the series Witchcraft and Magic in Europe:
Ancient Greece and Rome
The Twentieth Century
Biblical and Pagan Societies
The Middle Ages
The Period of the Witch Trials

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À propos de l'auteur

Bengt Ankarloo is Professor of History at Lund University, Sweden. Stuart Clark is Professor of History at the University of Wales, Swansea.

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Éditeur
University of Pennsylvania Press
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0812217063
ISBN 13 
9780812217063
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
288
Éditeur
Ankarloo Bengt, Clark Stuart
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