Fearful spirits, reasoned follies : the boundaries of superstition in late medieval Europe /
"Superstitions are commonplace in the modern world. Mostly, however, they evoke innocuous images of people reading their horoscopes or avoiding black cats. Certain religious practices might also come to mind--praying to St. Christopher or lighting candles for the dead. Benign as they might seem...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2013.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the meanings of medieval superstition
- The weight of tradition
- Superstition in court and cloister
- The cardinal, the confessor, and the chancellor
- Dilemmas of discernment
- Witchcraft and its discontents
- Toward disenchantment?