Tous les livres numériques de la collection Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic

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Roger Bartra The Myth of the Werewolf This is a historical and anthropological study of the myth of the werewolf aimed at reflecting on the metamorphoses of evil and understanding the long evolution of a mythical structure. Legends and folklore allow us to explore the brutal bestiality of a figure loaded... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2024-12-23 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic Format(s) : PDF, ePub 116,04 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Sarah A. Hughes American Tabloid Media and the Satanic Panic, 1970-2000 This book examines the “satanic panic” of the 1980s as an essential part of the growing relationship between tabloid media and American conservative politics in the 1980s. It argues that widespread fears of Satanism in a range of cultural institutions was indispensable... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2021-10-27 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic Format(s) : PDF, ePub 116,04 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Owen Davies , Ceri Houlbrook Building Magic This book redresses popular interpretations of concealed objects, enigmatically discovered within the fabric of post-medieval buildings. A wide variety of objects have been found up chimneybreasts, bricked up in walls, and concealed within recesses: old shoes, mummified... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2021-09-10 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic Format(s) : PDF, ePub 137,14 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Göran Malmstedt Premodern Beliefs and Witch Trials in a Swedish Province, 1669-1672 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... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2021-07-15 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic Format(s) : PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Catharina Raudvere Narratives and Rituals of the Nightmare Hag in Scandinavian Folk Belief This books explores varying conceptions of the Nightmare hag, mara, in Scandinavian folk belief. What began as observations of some startling narratives preserved in folklore archives where sex, violence and curses are recurring themes gradually led to... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2021-02-26 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic Format(s) : PDF, ePub 105,49 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Kristina West Reading the Salem Witch Child This book discusses the role of children in the Salem witch trials through a close reading of the many and varied narratives of the trials, including court records, contemporary and historical documents, fiction, drama, and poetry. Taking a critical theory approach to... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2020-11-17 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic Format(s) : PDF, ePub 116,04 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Shai Feraro Women and Gender Issues in British Paganism, 1945–1990 This book explores the ways in which changing views on gender and the place of women in society during the latter half of the twentieth century affected women’s participation and standing within British Paganism. More specifically, it examines how British Wiccans and... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2020-06-11 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic Format(s) : PDF, ePub 105,49 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Michelle D. Brock , Richard Raiswell , David R. Winter Knowing Demons, Knowing Spirits in the Early Modern Period This book explores the manifold ways of knowing—and knowing about— preternatural beings such as demons, angels, fairies, and other spirits that inhabited and were believed to act in early modern European worlds. Its contributors examine how people across the social... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2018-07-31 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic Format(s) : PDF, ePub 147,69 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Marina Montesano Classical Culture and Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Italy 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... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2018-07-11 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic Format(s) : PDF, ePub 105,49 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Ceri Houlbrook The Magic of Coin-Trees from Religion to Recreation This book traces the history of ritual landscapes in the British Isles, and the transition from religious practice to recreation, by focusing on a highly understudied exemplar: the coin-tree. These are trees imbued with magical properties into which coins have been... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2018-04-23 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic Format(s) : PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Ane Ohrvik Medicine, Magic and Art in Early Modern Norway This book addresses magical ideas and practices in early modern Norway. It examines a large corpus of Norwegian manuscripts from 1650-1850 commonly called Black Books which contained a mixture of recipes on medicine, magic, and art. Ane Ohrvik assesses the Black... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2018-04-02 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic Format(s) : PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Gábor Klaniczay , Éva Pócs Witchcraft and Demonology in Hungary and Transylvania This book provides a selection of studies on witchcraft and demonology by those involved in an interdisciplinary research group begun in Hungary thirty years ago. They examine urban and rural witchcraft conflicts from early modern times to the present, from a region... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-11-29 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic Format(s) : PDF, ePub 147,69 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Michael Ostling Fairies, Demons, and Nature Spirits This book examines the fairies, demons, and nature spirits haunting the margins of Christendom from late-antique Egypt to early modern Scotland to contemporary Amazonia. Contributions from anthropologists, folklorists, historians and religionists explore Christian... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-11-23 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic Format(s) : PDF, ePub 147,69 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Jonathan Barry , Owen Davies , Cornelie Usborne Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present This volume is a collection based on the contributions to witchcraft studies of Willem de Blécourt, to whom it is dedicated, and who provides the opening chapter, setting out a methodological and conceptual agenda for the study of cultures of witchcraft (broadly... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-10-09 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic Format(s) : PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Louise Nyholm Kallestrup , Raisa Maria Toivo Contesting Orthodoxy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe This book breaks with three common scholarly barriers of periodization, discipline and geography in its exploration of the related themes of heresy, magic and witchcraft. It sets aside constructed chronological boundaries, and in doing so aims to achieve a clearer... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-02-04 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic Format(s) : PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Mirjam Mencej Styrian Witches in European Perspective The book provides a comprehensive exploration of witchcraft beliefs and practices in the rural region of Eastern Slovenia. Based on field research conducted at the beginning of the twenty-first century, it examines witchcraft in the region from folkloristic,... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-01-27 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic Format(s) : PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Ronald Hutton Physical Evidence for Ritual Acts, Sorcery and Witchcraft in Christian Britain This volume investigates the physical evidence for magic in medieval and modern Britain, including ritual mark, concealed objects, amulets, and magical equipment. The contributors are the current experts in each area of the subject, and show between them how ample the... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2016-01-26 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic Format(s) : PDF 116,04 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Willem De Blécourt Werewolf Histories Werewolf Histories is the first academic book in English to address European werewolf history and folklore from antiquity to the twentieth century. It covers the most important werewolf territories, ranging from Scandinavia to Germany, France and Italy, and from Croatia... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2015-10-06 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic Format(s) : PDF 137,14 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
L. Kallestrup Agents of Witchcraft in Early Modern Italy and Denmark This book offers a comparison of lay and inquisitorial witchcraft prosecutions. In most of the early modern period, witchcraft jurisdiction in Italy rested with the Roman Inquisition, whereas in Denmark only the secular courts raised trials. Kallestrup explores the... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2015-05-28 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic Format(s) : PDF 116,04 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
R. Bottigheimer Magic Tales and Fairy Tale Magic This book examines magic's generally maleficent effect on humans from ancient Egypt through the Middle Ages, including tales from classical mythology, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim cultures. It shows that certain magical motifs lived on from age to age, but that it took... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2014-07-01 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic Format(s) : PDF 89,66 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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