Trafficking with demons : magic, ritual, and gender from late antiquity to 1000 /
"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"--
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Ithaca [New York] :
Cornell University Press,
2021.
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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.