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Everyday Magic in Early Modern Europe

Af: Kathryn A. Edwards Engelsk Paperback

Everyday Magic in Early Modern Europe

Af: Kathryn A. Edwards Engelsk Paperback
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While pre-modern Europe is often seen as having an ''enchanted'' or ''magical'' worldview, the full implications of such labels remain inconsistently explored. Witchcraft, demonology, and debates over pious practices have provided the main avenues for treating those themes, but integrating them with other activities and ideas seen as forming an enchanted Europe has proven to be a much more difficult task. This collection offers one method of demystifying this world of everyday magic. Integrating case studies and more theoretical responses to the magical and preternatural, the authors here demonstrate that what we think of as extraordinary was often accepted as legitimate, if unusual, occurrences or practices. In their treatment of and attitudes towards spirit-assisted treasure-hunting, magical recipes, trials for sanctity, and visits by guardian angels, early modern Europeans showed more acceptance of and comfort with the extraordinary than modern scholars frequently acknowledge. Even witchcraft could be more pervasive and less threatening than many modern interpretations suggest. Magic was both mundane and mysterious in early modern Europe, and the witches who practiced it could in many ways be quite ordinary members of their communities. The vivid cases described in this volume should make the reader question how to distinguish the ordinary and extraordinary and the extent to which those terms need to be redefined for an early modern context. They should also make more immediate a world in which magic was an everyday occurrence.
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While pre-modern Europe is often seen as having an ''enchanted'' or ''magical'' worldview, the full implications of such labels remain inconsistently explored. Witchcraft, demonology, and debates over pious practices have provided the main avenues for treating those themes, but integrating them with other activities and ideas seen as forming an enchanted Europe has proven to be a much more difficult task. This collection offers one method of demystifying this world of everyday magic. Integrating case studies and more theoretical responses to the magical and preternatural, the authors here demonstrate that what we think of as extraordinary was often accepted as legitimate, if unusual, occurrences or practices. In their treatment of and attitudes towards spirit-assisted treasure-hunting, magical recipes, trials for sanctity, and visits by guardian angels, early modern Europeans showed more acceptance of and comfort with the extraordinary than modern scholars frequently acknowledge. Even witchcraft could be more pervasive and less threatening than many modern interpretations suggest. Magic was both mundane and mysterious in early modern Europe, and the witches who practiced it could in many ways be quite ordinary members of their communities. The vivid cases described in this volume should make the reader question how to distinguish the ordinary and extraordinary and the extent to which those terms need to be redefined for an early modern context. They should also make more immediate a world in which magic was an everyday occurrence.
Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 198
ISBN-13: 9781032928074
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1032928077
Udg. Dato: 14 okt 2024
Længde: 15mm
Bredde: 233mm
Højde: 156mm
Forlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oplagsdato: 14 okt 2024
Forfatter(e): Kathryn A. Edwards
Forfatter(e) Kathryn A. Edwards


Kategori Social- & Kulturhistorie


ISBN-13 9781032928074


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 198


Udgave


Længde 15mm


Bredde 233mm


Højde 156mm


Udg. Dato 14 okt 2024


Oplagsdato 14 okt 2024


Forlag Taylor & Francis Ltd