WorldCat Linked Data Explorer

Turtle N-Triple JSON-LD RDF/XML HTML Contact Us Home

http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/801003384

The realities of witchcraft and popular magic in early modern Europe culture, cognition, and everyday life

This book explores the elements of reality in early modern witchcraft and popular magic through a combination of detailed archival research and broad-ranging interdisciplinary analyses. The book complements and challenges existing scholarship, offering unique insights into this murky aspect of early modern history.

Open All Close All

type

about

http://schema.org/about

author

contributor

creator

description

http://schema.org/description

  • "This book explores the elements of reality in early modern witchcraft and popular magic through a combination of detailed archival research and broad-ranging interdisciplinary analyses. The book complements and challenges existing scholarship, offering unique insights into this murky aspect of early modern history."@en
  • "What did witchcraft and magic in Early Modern Europe really involve? The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic explores the elements of reality in early modern witchcraft and popular magic through a detailed study of actual cases and broad-ranging interdisciplinary investigations of psychological influences on health, subliminal communication, perception and cognition, and transcultural aspects of shamanism. Assessing the results in light of research in other parts of Europe, it demonstrates that early modern fears of malefic magic reflected actual practices and potential harms, belief in the Devil not only contributed to but also reflected the perceptual and cognitive processes by which people construct their experience of reality, beneficent magic was both a pervasive and a potent element in early modern life, and the systematic repression of magic played a critical role in its eventual decline. The book complements and challenges existing scholarship, offering unique insights into this murky aspect of the past."

genre

http://schema.org/genre

  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Electronic books"@en

name

http://schema.org/name

  • "The realities of witchcraft and popular magic in early modern Europe"
  • "The realities of witchcraft and popular magic in early modern Europe culture, cognition, and everyday life"@en
  • "The realities of witchcraft and popular magic in early modern Europe culture, cognition, and everyday life"
  • "The realities of witchcraft and popular magic in early modern Europe : Culture, cognition and everyday life"
  • "The realities of witchcraft and popular magic in Early Modern Europe : culture, cognition, and everyday life"
  • "The realities of witchcraft and popular magic in early modern Europe : culture, cognition and everyday life"
  • "The realities of witchcraft and popular magic in early modern Europe ;Culture, cognition and everyday life"
  • "The realities of witchcraft and popular magic in early modern Europe : culture, cognition, and everyday life"
  • "The realities of witchcraft and popular magic in early modern Europe culture, cognition and everyday life"

workExample