The Devil in Society in Premodern Europe
Author | : Richard Raiswell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 2012 |
ISBN-10 | : 0772721254 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780772721259 |
Rating | : 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
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Author | : Richard Raiswell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 2012 |
ISBN-10 | : 0772721254 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780772721259 |
Rating | : 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Author | : Peter Jonathan Dendle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 2012 |
ISBN-10 | : 0772721246 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780772721242 |
Rating | : 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Acknowledgements : "The articles in this book all originated as papers presented at the "Devil in Society in the Pre-Modern World", an international, multi-disciplinary and multi-university conference held at Victoria University in the University of Toronto between 17 and 18 October 2008..."
Author | : Andrew D. McCarthy |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2016-04-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781317050674 |
ISBN-13 | : 1317050673 |
Rating | : 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Engaging with fiction and history-and reading both genres as texts permeated with early modern anxieties, desires, and apprehensions-this collection scrutinizes the historical intersection of early modern European superstitions and English stage literature. Contributors analyze the cultural mechanisms that shape, preserve, and transmit beliefs. They investigate where superstitions come from and how they are sustained and communicated within early modern European society. It has been proposed by scholars that once enacted on stage and thus brought into contact with the literary-dramatic perspective, belief systems that had been preserved and reinforced by historical-literary texts underwent a drastic change. By highlighting the connection between historical-literary and literary-dramatic culture, this volume tests and explores the theory that performance of superstitions opened the way to disbelief.
Author | : Miriam Eliav-Feldon |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2015-09-29 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781137447494 |
ISBN-13 | : 1137447494 |
Rating | : 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
In this book, twelve scholars of early modern history analyse various categories and cases of deception and false identity in the age of geographical discoveries and of forced conversions: from two-faced conversos to serial converts, from demoniacs to stigmatics, and from self-appointed ambassadors to lying cosmographer.
Author | : Julian Goodare |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2020-08-11 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781000080803 |
ISBN-13 | : 1000080803 |
Rating | : 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Demonology – the intellectual study of demons and their powers – contributed to the prosecution of thousands of witches. But how exactly did intellectual ideas relate to prosecutions? Recent scholarship has shown that some of the demonologists’ concerns remained at an abstract intellectual level, while some of the judges’ concerns reflected popular culture. This book brings demonology and witch-hunting back together, while placing both topics in their specific regional cultures. The book’s chapters, each written by a leading scholar, cover most regions of Europe, from Scandinavia and Britain through to Germany, France and Switzerland, and Italy and Spain. By focusing on various intellectual levels of demonology, from sophisticated demonological thought to the development of specific demonological ideas and ideas within the witch trial environment, the book offers a thorough examination of the relationship between demonology and witch-hunting. Demonology and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe is essential reading for all students and researchers of the history of demonology, witch-hunting and early modern Europe.
Author | : Stephan Quensel |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 763 |
Release | : 2023-06-26 |
ISBN-10 | : 9783658414122 |
ISBN-13 | : 365841412X |
Rating | : 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Why does an entire society believe that there are witches who must be burned? What roles did the emerging 'state', the professions of clerics and jurists, and the public involved play in each case? And how could this project be completed? From a sociological point of view, the findings of recent international research on witches provide a model of a more general, highly ambivalent, 'pastoral' attitude, according to which a shepherd has to care for the welfare of his flock as well as for its erring sheep. The first main part describes the clerical initial situation, which developed the 'Dominican' demonological model of witchcraft on the basis of the still dominant magico-religious mentality in the 15th century. A model, according to the second part of the book, which then in the course of the 16th century in Western Europe increasingly fell into the hands of the not so innocent jurists. From there it developed into a legal witch persecution that realized the early European witch model from the village witch to the mass persecutions to the late child witches. The third part describes how witch persecutions slowly became less important towards the end of the 17th century as a general witchcraft 'politics' game in the transition from a confessional state to a (court) 'civil service' state.
Author | : Michelle D. Brock |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2018-07-31 |
ISBN-10 | : 9783319757384 |
ISBN-13 | : 3319757385 |
Rating | : 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
This book explores the manifold ways of knowing—and knowing about— preternatural beings such as demons, angels, fairies, and other spirits that inhabited and were believed to act in early modern European worlds. Its contributors examine how people across the social spectrum assayed the various types of spiritual entities that they believed dwelled invisibly but meaningfully in the spaces just beyond (and occasionally within) the limits of human perception. Collectively, the volume demonstrates that an awareness and understanding of the nature and capabilities of spirits—whether benevolent or malevolent—was fundamental to the knowledge-making practices that characterize the years between ca. 1500 and 1750. This is, therefore, a book about how epistemological and experiential knowledge of spirits persisted and evolved in concert with the wider intellectual changes of the early modern period, such as the Protestant Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment.
Author | : Irit Ruth Kleiman |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 517 |
Release | : 2015-09-30 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781137397065 |
ISBN-13 | : 1137397063 |
Rating | : 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Twelve medieval scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including law, literature, and religion address the question: What did it mean to possess a voice - or to be without one - during the Middle Ages? This collection reveals how the philosophy, theology, and aesthetics of the voice inhabit some of the most canonical texts of the Middle Ages.
Author | : Nathan Johnstone |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 2006-01-12 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781139447362 |
ISBN-13 | : 113944736X |
Rating | : 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
An original book examining the concept of the Devil in English culture between the Reformation and the end of the English Civil War. Nathan Johnstone looks at the ways in which beliefs about the nature of the Devil and his power in human affairs changed as a consequence of the Reformation, and its impact on religious, literary and political culture. He moves away from the established focus on demonology as a component of the belief in witchcraft and examines a wide range of religious and political milieux, such as practical divinity, the interiority of Puritan godliness, anti-popery, polemic and propaganda, and popular culture. The concept of the Devil that emerged from the Reformation had a profound impact on the beliefs and practices of committed Protestants, but it also influenced both the political debates of the reigns of Elizabeth I, James I and Charles I, and in popular culture more widely.
Author | : Sari Katajala-Peltomaa |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2020-03-04 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780198850465 |
ISBN-13 | : 0198850468 |
Rating | : 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Demonic possession was a spiritual state that often had physical symptoms; however, in Demonic Possession and Lived Religion in Later Medieval Europe, Sari Katajala-Peltomaa argues that demonic possession was a social phenomenon which should be understood with regard to the community and culture. She focuses on significant case studies from canonization processes (c. 1240-1450) which show how each set of sources formed its own specific context, in which demonic presence derived from different motivations, reasonings, and methods of categorization. The chosen perspective is that of lived religion, which is both a thematic approach and a methodology: a focus on rituals, symbols, and gestures, as well as sensitivity to nuances and careful contextualizing of the cases are constitutive elements of the argumentation. The analysis contests the hierarchy between the 'learned' and the 'popular' within religion, as well as the existence of a strict polarity between individual and collective religious participation. Demonic presence disclosed negotiations over authority and agency; it shows how the personal affected the communal, and vice versa, and how they were eventually transformed into discourses and institutions of the Church; that is, definitions of the miraculous and the diabolical. Geographically, the volume covers Western Europe, comparing Northern and Southern material and customs. The structure follows the logic of the phenomenon, beginning with the background reasons offered as a cause of demonic possession, continuing with communities' responses and emotions, including construction of sacred caregiving methods. Finally, the ways in which demonic presence contributed to wider societal debates in the fields of politics and spirituality are discussed. Alterity and inversion of identity, gender, and various forms of corporeality and the interplay between the sacred and diabolical are themes that run all through the volume.