ISBN:
9781137380876
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (217 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
Series Statement:
Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Magic Tales and Fairy Tale Magic : From Ancient Egypt to the Italian Renaissance
DDC:
398.2/09
Keywords:
Religion-History
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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 until the Italian Renaissance for magic tales to become fairy tales.
Abstract:
〈p 〉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 until the Italian Renaissance for magic tales to become fairy tales
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Tales, Magic, and Fairy Tales; 2 Egyptian, Greek, and Roman Magic Tales; 3 Jewish Magic Tales; 4 Magic Tales in Medieval Christian Europe; 5 Magic Tales in the Muslim Middle Ages; 6 Magic at Court and on the Piazza; 7 The Problematics of Magic on the Threshold of Fairy Tale Magic: Straparola''s Early Modern Pleasant Nights; 8 The Evolution of Fairy Tale Magic from Straparola to Basile and Perrault; 9 Afterword; Works Cited and Referenced; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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