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Title: WITCHCRAFT IN EUROPE
By: P. G. Maxwell-Stuart
Format: Hardback

List price: £78.99


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ISBN 10: 0333764641
ISBN 13: 9780333764640
Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
Pub. date: 23 April, 2001
Pages: 128
Description: The aim of the text is to provide an insight into the way in which people in the early modern period framed their ideas about the Creator and the created universe in terms of magic. This mental framework informed and moulded academic thinking and offered practical help with everyday life.
Synopsis: Magic and witchcraft have been believed in, and practised, from ancient times through to the present day, frequently as an expected companion to the official religion. It is, however, important not to fall into the trap of thinking of these beliefs as being a monolithic set of tenets and practises. The aim of this book is to provide students with insight into the way in which people in the early modern period framed their ideas abouth the 'Creator' and the created universe in terms of magic. This mental framework informed and moulded theology, philosophy, the law, medicine, and the sciences, as well as offering everyone practical help to cope with and find solutions to the multifarious problems of their everyday lives. A study of witchcraft, (which was simply a particular manifestation of this mental world) therefore helps to illustrate many of the key concepts which governed both defenders and, later, opponents of the magical Zeitgeist.Maxwell-Stuart creates a lively overview of the subject from medieval attitudes to witches, through the details of two influential treatises, to the effect of the Reformation on attitudes to witchcraft, and the influence of Calvin, Luther and James VI of Scotland. Recent scholarship on witchcraft in Scandinavia, Iceland, Russia, Hungary, Poland and the New World enriches the text.
Illustrations: biography
Publication: UK
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Returns: Returnable
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