Enchanted Europe : superstition, reason, and religion 1250-1750 /

'Enchanted Europe' offers a comprehensive account of Europe's long, complex relationship with its own folklore & popular religion. From debates over the efficacy of charms & spells, to belief in fairies & demons, Euan Cameron constructs a compelling narrative of the rise &...

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Main Author: Cameron, Euan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford Univiversity Press, 2010.
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520 |a 'Enchanted Europe' offers a comprehensive account of Europe's long, complex relationship with its own folklore & popular religion. From debates over the efficacy of charms & spells, to belief in fairies & demons, Euan Cameron constructs a compelling narrative of the rise & fall of 'superstition' in the European mind. 
505 0 |a The problems of pre-modern life -- A densely populated universe -- Helpful performances : the uses of ritual -- Insight and foresight : techniques of divination -- The Patristic and Early Medieval heritage -- Scholastic demonology in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries -- The demonological reading of superstitions in the Late Middle Ages : areas of consensus -- The demonological reading of superstitions in the Late Middle Ages : areas of difference and disagreement -- The pastoral use of the scholastic critique of superstitions -- Some Renaissance Christian humanists and 'superstition' -- Magic, the fallen world, and fallen humanity : Martin Luther on the devil and superstitions -- Prodigies, providences, and possession : the sixteenth-century Protestant context -- The Protestant critique of consecrations : Catholicism as superstition -- The Reformed doctrine of providence and the transformation of the Devil -- Reformed Catholicism : purifying sources, defending traditions -- Demonology becomes an open subject in the seventeenth century -- Defending the 'invisible world' : the campaign against 'saducism' -- Towards the Enlightenment. 
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