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Folklore, Magic, and Witchcraft : Cultural Exchanges from the Twelfth to Eighteenth Century

Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021 [©2021]

1 online resource (319 pages)

Englisch

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Erscheint auch als: Folklore, magic, and witchcraft (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-1-000-43023-3

978-0-367-55769-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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Basisklassifikation: 15.07 (Kulturgeschichte) ; 20.21 (Religion; Magie) <Ikonographie> ; 15.30 (Europäische Geschichte in Mittelalter und Neuzeit: Allgemeines)

*Volksglaube ; Magie ; Hexerei ; Geschichte 1100-1800     Zum Register

*Europa ; Volksreligion ; Okkultismus ; Kulturkontakt ; Geschichte 1100-1800      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Folklore-Europe-History ; Magic-Europe-History

Cover -- Half Title -- Endorsement Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I Interpreting folkloric beliefs -- Chapter 1 The Tree of the Bourlémonts: Gendered beliefs in fairies and their transmission from old to young women in Joan of Arc's Domr é my -- Chapter 2 The rejuvenating blood: Marsilio Ficino and the witches -- Chapter 3 The circulation and exchange of ideas, myths, legends, and oral traditions in the witchcraft trials of Italy -- Chapter 4 Between Hell and Paradise: The legend of the soul of the Emperor Trajan -- Part II Cultural exchange among Christian, Islamic, and Jewish communities -- Chapter 5 Artificial creation of human life: Ibn Wa ḥ šiyya as a source of the Futū ḥ āt al-makkiyya -- Chapter 6 Fragments of a Jewish magical tradition in the library of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola -- Chapter 7 Parallel beliefs: Cultural exchange between Jews and Christians on magic and witchcraft, and the concerns of the Inquisition -- Part III Preachers as mediators -- Chapter 8 Some reports of magic, superstition, and witchcraft in the medieval mirabilia literature -- Chapter 9 "Diabolical sorceries": Vicent Ferrer's preaching and the emergence of the witchcraft construct(s) in early fifteenth-century Europe -- Chapter 10 Circulation of magic and folkloric traditions in the times of Antonino of Florence and Bernardino of Siena -- Part IV The cultural interpretation of objects -- Chapter 11 The body of Christ: Exchanges and cultural upheavals in early-modern Italy -- Chapter 12 The natural and the supernatural: Collecting, interests, and trials of the nuncio Francesco Vitelli in Venice, 1632-1643.