Magic and magicians in the Middle Ages and the early modern time : the occult in pre-modern sciences, medicine, literature, religion, and astrology /
There are no clear demarcation lines between magic, astrology, necromancy, medicine, and even sciences in the pre-modern world. Under the umbrella term 'magic, ' the contributors to this volume examine a wide range of texts, both literary and religious, both medical and philosophical, in w...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
Walter de Gruyter GmbH,
[2017]
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Colección: | Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ;
20. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Magic in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age
- Literature, Science, Religion, Philosophy, Music, and Art. An Introduction / Albrecht Classen
- Magical (and Maligned) Metalworkers: Understanding Representations of Early and High Medieval Blacksmiths / Warren Tormey
- Painted Eyes, Magical Sieves and Carved Runes: Charms for Catching and Punishing Thieves in the Medieval and Early Modern Germanic Tradition / Chiara Benati
- Constructing the Magical Biography of the Irish Druid Mog Ruith / Aideen M. O'Leary
- Zum Umgang mit Zauberern im Rahmen frühmittelalterlicher Missionsanstrengungen (Dealing with Magicians Within the Framework of Early Medieval Missionizing Efforts) / Christoph Galle
- Magic and Science: The Portail des libraires, Rouen / Nurit Golan
- The Magic of Love: Queen Isolde, the Magician Clinschor, and "Seeing" in Gottfried's Tristan and Wolfram's Parzival / Christopher R. Clason
- Magical Gifts in Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan und Isolde and the Rejection of Magic / Rosmarie Thee Morewedge
- Was Eustace Diabolical? Magic and Devilry in Le roman de Wistasse le moine / Cristina Azuela
- Merlin, or, a Prophet Turning Magician / Anne Berthelot
- The Book of Zabulon
- A Quest for Hidden Secrets: Intertextuality and Magical Genealogy in Middle High German Literature, with an Emphasis on Reinfried von Braunschweig / Christa Agnes Tuczay
- Miracles and Magic: Necromantic Practices Found in Cantiga 125 / Veronica Menaldi
- Magic at the Margins: The Mystification of Maugis d'Aigremont / Kathleen Jarchow
- The Magician at Home with his Family: Comparative Historical Ethnographies of Two Pre- Modern Magicians from Autobiographical Sources: John of Morigny and the Tibetan Monk Milarepa / Claire Fanger
- Curious Clerks: Image Magic and Chaucerian Poetics / Lisa M.C. Weston
- Representing Magic and Science in The Franklin's Tale and The Canon's Yeoman's Tale: Chaucer's Exploration of Connected Topics / Daniel F. Pigg
- Magic in Late Medieval German Literature: The Case of the Good Magician Malagis / Albrecht Classen
- Motives, Means, and a Malevolent Mantel: The Case of Morgan le Fay's Transgressions in Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur / Dalicia K. Raymond
- Witchcraft, Heinrich Kramer's Nuremburg Handbook, and Ecclesiasticus: The Construction of the Fifteenth-Century Civic Sorceress / Amiri Ayanna
- Magic and Ritual in Late-Medieval and Early-Modern Popular Medicine / David Tomíček
- Attempted Murder by Magic: The Sorcerer and His Apprentice in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron 1 / Elizabeth Chesney Zegura
- How Magical Was Renaissance Magic? / Thomas Willard
- Magic in Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen's Saul and the Witch of Endor / Martha Moffitt Peacock
- Heterochronic Representation of Magic in Czech Chapbooks / Jiří Koten
- Rethinking Max Weber's Theory of Disenchantment / Allison P. Coudert.