Tous les livres numériques de la collection "Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic" - Palgrave Macmillan

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The Myth of the Werewolf Roger Bartra This is a historical and anthropological study of the myth of the werewolf aimed at reflecting on the metamorphoses of evil and understanding the long evolution of a mythical structure. Legends and folklore allow us to explore the brutal bestiality of a figure loaded... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2024-12-23 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic PDF, ePub 116,04 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
American Tabloid Media and the Satanic Panic, 1970-2000 Sarah A. Hughes This book examines the “satanic panic” of the 1980s as an essential part of the growing relationship between tabloid media and American conservative politics in the 1980s. It argues that widespread fears of Satanism in a range of cultural institutions was indispensable... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2021-10-27 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic PDF, ePub 116,04 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Building Magic Owen Davies , Ceri Houlbrook This book redresses popular interpretations of concealed objects, enigmatically discovered within the fabric of post-medieval buildings. A wide variety of objects have been found up chimneybreasts, bricked up in walls, and concealed within recesses: old shoes, mummified... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2021-09-10 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic PDF, ePub 137,14 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Premodern Beliefs and Witch Trials in a Swedish Province, 1669-1672 Göran Malmstedt This book examines the worldview and perceptions of reality that formed the setting for the witch trials held in the Swedish province of Bohuslän in 1669-1672. The first part of the book explores the conduct of the trials and provides, among other things, an analysis of... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2021-07-15 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Narratives and Rituals of the Nightmare Hag in Scandinavian Folk Belief Catharina Raudvere This books explores varying conceptions of the Nightmare hag, mara, in Scandinavian folk belief. What began as observations of some startling narratives preserved in folklore archives where sex, violence and curses are recurring themes gradually led to... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2021-02-26 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic PDF, ePub 105,49 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Reading the Salem Witch Child Kristina West This book discusses the role of children in the Salem witch trials through a close reading of the many and varied narratives of the trials, including court records, contemporary and historical documents, fiction, drama, and poetry. Taking a critical theory approach to... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2020-11-17 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic PDF, ePub 116,04 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Women and Gender Issues in British Paganism, 1945–1990 Shai Feraro This book explores the ways in which changing views on gender and the place of women in society during the latter half of the twentieth century affected women’s participation and standing within British Paganism. More specifically, it examines how British Wiccans and... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2020-06-11 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic PDF, ePub 105,49 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Knowing Demons, Knowing Spirits in the Early Modern Period Michelle D. Brock , Richard Raiswell , David R. Winter 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... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2018-07-31 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic PDF, ePub 147,69 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Classical Culture and Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Italy Marina Montesano This book explores the relationships between ancient witchcraft and its modern incarnation, and by doing so fills an important gap in the historiography. It is often noted that stories of witchcraft circulated in Greek and Latin classical texts, and that treatises... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2018-07-11 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic PDF, ePub 105,49 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Magic of Coin-Trees from Religion to Recreation Ceri Houlbrook This book traces the history of ritual landscapes in the British Isles, and the transition from religious practice to recreation, by focusing on a highly understudied exemplar: the coin-tree. These are trees imbued with magical properties into which coins have been... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2018-04-23 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Witchcraft and Demonology in Hungary and Transylvania Gábor Klaniczay , Éva Pócs This book provides a selection of studies on witchcraft and demonology by those involved in an interdisciplinary research group begun in Hungary thirty years ago. They examine urban and rural witchcraft conflicts from early modern times to the present, from a region... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-11-29 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic PDF, ePub 147,69 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Fairies, Demons, and Nature Spirits Michael Ostling This book examines the fairies, demons, and nature spirits haunting the margins of Christendom from late-antique Egypt to early modern Scotland to contemporary Amazonia. Contributions from anthropologists, folklorists, historians and religionists explore Christian... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-11-23 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic PDF, ePub 147,69 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present Jonathan Barry , Owen Davies , Cornelie Usborne This volume is a collection based on the contributions to witchcraft studies of Willem de Blécourt, to whom it is dedicated, and who provides the opening chapter, setting out a methodological and conceptual agenda for the study of cultures of witchcraft (broadly... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-10-09 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Contesting Orthodoxy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe Louise Nyholm Kallestrup , Raisa Maria Toivo This book breaks with three common scholarly barriers of periodization, discipline and geography in its exploration of the related themes of heresy, magic and witchcraft. It sets aside constructed chronological boundaries, and in doing so aims to achieve a clearer... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-02-04 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Physical Evidence for Ritual Acts, Sorcery and Witchcraft in Christian Britain Ronald Hutton This volume investigates the physical evidence for magic in medieval and modern Britain, including ritual mark, concealed objects, amulets, and magical equipment. The contributors are the current experts in each area of the subject, and show between them how ample the... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2016-01-26 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic PDF 116,04 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Werewolf Histories Willem De Blécourt Werewolf Histories is the first academic book in English to address European werewolf history and folklore from antiquity to the twentieth century. It covers the most important werewolf territories, ranging from Scandinavia to Germany, France and Italy, and from Croatia... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2015-10-06 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic PDF 137,14 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Agents of Witchcraft in Early Modern Italy and Denmark L. Kallestrup This book offers a comparison of lay and inquisitorial witchcraft prosecutions. In most of the early modern period, witchcraft jurisdiction in Italy rested with the Roman Inquisition, whereas in Denmark only the secular courts raised trials. Kallestrup explores the... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2015-05-28 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic PDF 116,04 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Magic Tales and Fairy Tale Magic R. Bottigheimer This book examines magic's generally maleficent effect on humans from ancient Egypt through the Middle Ages, including tales from classical mythology, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim cultures. It shows that certain magical motifs lived on from age to age, but that it took... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2014-07-01 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic PDF 89,66 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Urban Magic in Early Modern Spain M. Tausiet Drawing on the graphic and revealing evidence recorded by the different courts in early modern Saragossa, this book captures the spirit of an age when religious faith vied for people's hearts and minds with centuries-old beliefs in witchcraft and superstition. Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2014-01-21 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic PDF 116,04 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters J. Goodare This book brings together twelve studies that collectively provide an overview of the main issues of live interest in Scottish witchcraft. As well as fresh studies of the well-established topic of witch-hunting, the book also launches an exploration of some of the more... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2013-10-31 Collection : Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic PDF 137,14 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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