Book Description
Topics include modern pagan witchcraft, Satanism, and the continued existence of traditional witchcraft.
Author : Bengt Ankarloo
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 11,4 MB
Release : 1999-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812217070
Topics include modern pagan witchcraft, Satanism, and the continued existence of traditional witchcraft.
Author : Willem de Blecourt
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 30,4 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780485890068
Witchcraft continues to play a role in the modern European imagination and in its cultures. This book brings together studies of its most important modern manifestations. The volume includes a major new history of the origins and development of English 'Wicca', an account of satanic abuse mythology in the Twentieth Century and a survey of the continued existence of traditional witchcraft.
Author : Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 35,57 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0485891050
The end of the 18th century saw the end of witch trials. This volume charts the processes and reasons for decriminalizing witchcraft. It also surveys the social role of witchcraft in European communities to the end of the 19th century.
Author : Bengt Ankarloo
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,7 MB
Release : 2002-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812217865
During the Middle Ages a shared European concept of magic emerged. In the early period, pagan beliefs and practices were absorbed into everyday culture, including the rituals of the Church. The rise of the practice of "white magic" in the twelfth century became so popular that it caused a widespread determination in the Church to condemn any unsanctioned beliefs or practices. The Church and state, both centralized powers in a decentralized Europe, gradually sharpened their attitude toward magic in general, and sorcery and witchcraft in particular, paving the way for the violent outbreaks of witch persecutions in early modern Europe. Witchcraft and Magic in Europe combines the traditional approaches of political, legal, and social historians with a critical synthesis of cultural anthropology, historical psychology, and gender studies. The series, complete in six volumes, provides a modern, scholarly survey of the supernatural beliefs of Europeans from ancient times to the present day. Each volume of this ambitious six-volume series contains the work of distinguished scholars chosen for their expertise in a particular era or region.
Author : Bengt Ankarloo
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 26,38 MB
Release : 2005
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Author : Bengt Ankarloo
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,48 MB
Release : 1999-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812217063
Topics include the decline of the witchcraft trials and the role of witchcraft and magic in enlightenment, romantic, and liberal thought.
Author : Willem de Blecourt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 13,41 MB
Release : 1998-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0567396509
Witchcraft continues to play a role in the modern European imagination and in its cultures. This book brings together studies of its most important modern manifestations. The volume includes a major new history of the origins and development of English 'Wicca', an account of satanic abuse mythology in the Twentieth Century and a survey of the continued existence of traditional witchcraft.
Author : Karen Louise Jolly
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,57 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Europe
ISBN : 9780812236163
The series Witchcraft and Magic In Europe, complete in six volumes, provides a modern, scholarly survey of the supernatural beliefs of Europeans from ancient times to the present day. Each volume contains the work of distinguished scholars chosen for their expertise in a particular era or region.
Author : Karen Jolly
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 21,97 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780485891034
Between the age of St. Augustine and the sixteenth century reformations magic continued to be both a matter of popular practice and of learned inquiry. This volume deals with its use in such contexts as healing and divination and as an aspect of the knowledge of nature's occult virtues and secrets.>
Author : Frederick H. Cryer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,67 MB
Release : 2001-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812217858
This volume, chronologically the first in the six-volume series, deals with the societies of the ancient Near East.