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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Classen, Albrecht (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2017]
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.