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The realities of witchcraft and popular magic in early modern Europe[electronic resource] :culture, cognition, and everyday life /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
杜威分類號:	133.4/3094
書名/作者:	The realities of witchcraft and popular magic in early modern Europe : culture, cognition, and everyday life // Edward Bever.
作者:	Bever, Edward Watts Morton.
出版者:	New York : : Palgrave Macmillan,, c2008.
面頁冊數:	xx, 627 p.
叢書名:	Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic
標題:	Witchcraft - History. - Europe
標題:	Magic - History. - Europe
ISBN:	9780230582118
ISBN:	0230582117
書目註:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 504-557) and index.
內容註:	The varieties of maleficium -- Maleficium and society -- The devil in the Duchy of Wurttemberg -- Witch dances and witch salves -- Sorcery,satanism, and shamanism -- Divination and prophesy -- Beneficent manipulative magic -- Magic and society.
摘要、提要註:	What did witchcraft and magic in Early Modern Europe really involve?The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic explores the elements ofreality in early modern witchcraft and popular magic through a detailed study of actual cases and broad-ranging interdisciplinary investigations of psychological influences on health, subliminal communication, perception and cognition, and transcultural aspects of shamanism. Assessing the results in light of research in other parts of Europe, it demonstrates that early modern fears of malefic magic reflected actual practices and potential harms, belief in the Devil not only contributed to but also reflected the perceptual and cognitive processes by which peopleconstruct their experience of reality, beneficent magic was both a pervasive and a potent element in early modern life, and the systematic repression of magic played a critical role in itseventual decline. The book complements and challenges existing scholarship, offering unique insightsinto this murky aspect of the past.
電子資源:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)

The realities of witchcraft and popular magic in early modern Europe[electronic resource] :culture, cognition, and everyday life /
Bever, Edward Watts Morton.

The realities of witchcraft and popular magic in early modern Europeculture, cognition, and everyday life /[electronic resource] :Edward Bever. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,c2008. - xx, 627 p. - Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 504-557) and index.

The varieties of maleficium -- Maleficium and society -- The devil in the Duchy of Wurttemberg -- Witch dances and witch salves -- Sorcery,satanism, and shamanism -- Divination and prophesy -- Beneficent manipulative magic -- Magic and society.

What did witchcraft and magic in Early Modern Europe really involve?The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic explores the elements ofreality in early modern witchcraft and popular magic through a detailed study of actual cases and broad-ranging interdisciplinary investigations of psychological influences on health, subliminal communication, perception and cognition, and transcultural aspects of shamanism. Assessing the results in light of research in other parts of Europe, it demonstrates that early modern fears of malefic magic reflected actual practices and potential harms, belief in the Devil not only contributed to but also reflected the perceptual and cognitive processes by which peopleconstruct their experience of reality, beneficent magic was both a pervasive and a potent element in early modern life, and the systematic repression of magic played a critical role in itseventual decline. The book complements and challenges existing scholarship, offering unique insightsinto this murky aspect of the past.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230582118

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230582118doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

371818
Witchcraft
--History.--EuropeIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

336502
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: BF1584.E9 / B48 2008eb

Dewey Class. No.: 133.4/3094

The realities of witchcraft and popular magic in early modern Europe[electronic resource] :culture, cognition, and everyday life /
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