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Demons and illness from antiquity to the early-modern period /
In many near eastern traditions, including Christianity, Judaism and Islam, demons have appeared as a cause of illness from ancient times until at least the early modern period. This volume explores the relationship between demons, illness and treatment comparatively. Its twenty chapters range from...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2017.
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| Colección: | Magical and Religious Literature of Late Antiquity Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Siam Bhayro and Catherine Rider
- Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt. Shifting Alignments : The Dichotomy of Benevolent and Malevolent Demons in Mesopotamia / Gina Konstantopoulos
- The Natural and Supernatural Aspects of Fever in Mesopotamian Medical Texts / András Bácksay
- Illness as Divine Punishment : The Nature and Function of the Disease-Carrier Demons in the Ancient Egyptian Magical Texts / Rita Lucarelli
- Demons at Work in Ancient Mesopotamia / Lorenzo Verderame
- Second Temple Judaism and Late Antiquity. Demons and Illness in Second Temple Judaism : Theory and Practice / Ida Fröhlich
- Illness and Healing through Spell and Incantation in the Dead Sea Scrolls / David Hamidović
- Conceptualizing Demons in Late Antique Judaism / Gideon Bohak
- Oneiric Aggressive Magic : Sleep Disorders in Late Antique Jewish Tradition / Alessia Bellusci
- The Influence of Demons on the Human Mind According to Athenagoras and Tatian / Chiara Crosignani
- Demonic Anti-Music and Spiritual Disorder in the Life of Antony / Sophie Sawicka-Sykes
- Over-eating Demoniacs in Late Antique Hagiography / Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe
- Medieval. Miracles and Madness: Dispelling Demons in Twelfth-Century Hagiography / Anne E. Bailey
- Demons in Lapidaries? The Evidence of the Madrid MS Escorial, h.I.15 / M. Carolina Escobar Vargas
- The Melancholy of the Necromancer in Arnau de Vilanova's Epistle against Demonic Magic / Sebastià Giralt
- Demons, Illness and Spiritual Aids in Natural Magic and Image Magic / Lauri Ockenström
- Between Medicine and Magic : Spiritual Aetiology and Therapeutics in Medieval Islam / Liana Saif
- Demons, Saints, and the Mad in the Twelfth-Century Miracles of Thomas Becket / Claire Trenery
- Early Modernity. The Post-Reformation Challenge to Demonic Possession / Harman Bhogal
- From A Discoverie to The Triall of Witchcraft : Doctor Cotta and Godly John / Pierre Kapitaniak
- Healing with Demons? Preternatural Philosophy and Superstitious Cures in Spanish Inquisitorial Courts / Bradley J. Mollmann
- Afterword : Pandaemonium / Peregrine Horden.