Magic Body And The Self In Eighteenth Century Sweden
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Author | : Jacqueline Van Gent |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004171142 |
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Contrary to previous assumptions, magic remained an integral part of everyday life in Enlightenment Europe. This book demonstrates that the endurance of magical practices, both benevolent and malevolent, was grounded in early modern perceptions of an interconnected body, self and spiritual cosmos. Drawing on eighteenth-century Swedish witchcraft trials, which are exceptionally detailed, these notions of embodiment and selfhood are explored in depth. The nuanced analysis of healing magic, the role of emotions, the politics of evidence and proof and the very ambiguity of magical rituals reveals a surprising syncretism of Christian and pre-Christian elements. The book provides a unique insight to the history of magic and witchcraft, the study of eighteenth-century religion and culture, and to our understanding of body and self in the past.
Author | : Göran Malmstedt |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2021-07-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3030761207 |
Download Premodern Beliefs and Witch Trials in a Swedish Province, 1669-1672 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book examines the worldview and perceptions of reality that formed the setting for the witch trials held in the Swedish province of Bohuslän in 1669-1672. The first part of the book explores the conduct of the trials and provides, among other things, an analysis of the defendants and of the various accusations from neighbours and the court. The following parts analyse the perceptions of reality found in the statements made in court by witnesses and the accused. The topics addressed include the relationship between dreams and reality, belief in shape-shifting, the power of words, emotions, and magically charged matters, as well as perceptions of God and the Devil. The beliefs that surfaced during the trials were part of a general mentality that characterised people’s perception of the world, both before and after the trials. As the records from the prolonged cross-examinations of the accused are unusually detailed, the defendant’s statements, together with accusations, testimonies, and the courts’ questions, provides a unique insight into premodern worldviews.
Author | : Arthur James Wells |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1922 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Bibliography, National |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : David J. Collins, S. J. |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 897 |
Release | : 2015-03-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316239497 |
Download The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book presents twenty chapters by experts in their fields, providing a thorough and interdisciplinary overview of the theory and practice of magic in the West. Its chronological scope extends from the Ancient Near East to twenty-first-century North America; its objects of analysis range from Persian curse tablets to US neo-paganism. For comparative purposes, the volume includes chapters on developments in the Jewish and Muslim worlds, evaluated not simply for what they contributed at various points to European notions of magic, but also as models of alternative development in ancient Mediterranean legacy. Similarly, the volume highlights the transformative and challenging encounters of Europeans with non-Europeans, regarding the practice of magic in both early modern colonization and more recent decolonization.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 776 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Sociology |
ISBN | : |
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CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
Author | : Owen Davies |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2017-07-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3319595199 |
Download Executing Magic in the Modern Era Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license This book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking at the afterlife potency of criminal corpses, the healing activities of the executioner, and the magic of the gallows site. The use of corpses in medicine and magic has been recorded back into antiquity. The lacerated bodies of Roman gladiators were used as a source of curative blood, for instance. In early modern Europe, a great trade opened up in ancient Egyptian mummies and the fat of executed criminals, plundered as medicinal cure-alls. However, this is the first book to consider the demand for the blood of the executed, the desire for human fat, the resort to the hanged man’s hand, and the trade in hanging rope in the modern era. It ends by look at the spiritual afterlife of dead criminals.
Author | : Stephanie O'Rourke |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2021-11-04 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1316519023 |
Download Art, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Innovative, alternative account of romanticism, exploring how art and science together contested the evidentiary authority of the human body.
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Total Pages | : 918 |
Release | : 1893 |
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Author | : Minnie Earl Sears |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1938 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : Essays |
ISBN | : |
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Includes "List of books indexed" (published also separately)
Author | : Owen Davies |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2004-11-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780719066603 |
Download Beyond the Witch Trials Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Beyond the witch trials provides an important collection of essays on the nature of witchcraft and magic in European society during the Enlightenment. The book is innovative not only because it pushes forward the study of witchcraft into the eighteenth century, but because it provides the reader with a challenging variety of different approaches and sources of information. The essays, which cover England, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Germany, Scotland, Finland and Sweden, examine the experience of and attitudes towards witchcraft from both above and below. While they demonstrate the continued widespread fear of witches amongst the masses, they also provide a corrective to the notion that intellectual society lost interest in the question of witchcraft. While witchcraft prosecutions were comparatively rare by the mid-eighteenth century, the intellectual debate did no disappear; it either became more private or refocused on such issues as possession. The contributors come from different academic disciplines, and by borrowing from literary theory, archaeology and folklore they move beyond the usual historical perspectives and sources. They emphasise the importance of studying such themes as the aftermath of witch trials, the continued role of cunning-folk in society, and the nature of the witchcraft discourse in different social contexts. This book will be essential reading for those interested in the decline of the European witch trials and the continued importance of witchcraft and magic during the Enlightenment. More generally it will appeal to those with a lively interest in the cultural history of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This is the first of a two-volume set of books looking at the phenomenon of witchcraft, magic and the occult in Europe since the seventeenth century.