Exorcising Our Demons: Magic, Witchcraft and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe - Couverture rigide

Zika, Charles

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004125604 ISBN 13 : 9789004125605

Editeur : Brill, 2003

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Charles Zika is Associate Professor of History at the University of Melbourne. He has published widely on magic, religion, witchcraft and visual culture in the sixteenth century, which includes Johannes Reuchlin und die okkulte Tradition der Renaissance (Thorbecke, 1998) and edited Dürer and his culture (Cambridge, 1998).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004125604
• ISBN 13: 9789004125605
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 630
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible