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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"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rampton, Martha (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: 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.