Trafficking with demons : magic, ritual, and gender from late antiquity to 1000 /

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"Explores magic and how it changes through the first millennium CE, demonstrating that as elites increasingly came to see magic as relatively impotent, the status of women decreased"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rampton, Martha (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
To 1500
Magic > Europe > History > To 1500.
Magic > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Magic > Religious aspects > Christianity > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Women in Christianity > Europe > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Women in Christianity > Europe > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Femmes dans le christianisme > Europe > Histoire > ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
Femmes dans le christianisme > Europe > Histoire > 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
HISTORY / Medieval
Magic
Women in Christianity > Early church
Women in Christianity > Middle Ages
Europe
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Magic and its sources in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages
  • Demons of the lower air
  • Ritual, demons, and sacred space
  • A thousand vacuous observances
  • Maleficium and traffic with the dead
  • The screech owl, the vampire, the moon, and the woman
  • Sub dio
  • Victimless magic and execrable remedies
  • The awesome power of the woman's craft
  • Placemaking and the natural world
  • Superstition and divination questioned
  • Women's magic challenged
  • Magic, women, and the Carolingian court
  • Magic and materia medica.

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