Classical Culture and Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

AvMarina Montesano

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Marina Montesano examines Greek and Latin literature, revealing how particular features of ancient striges were carried into the Late Middle Ages, through the Renaissance and into the fifteenth century, when early Italian trials recall the myth of the strix common in ancient Latin sources and in popular memory.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-07-26
Mått:148 x 210 x 24 mm
Vikt:618 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
Antal sidor:278
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319920771

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Marina Montesano is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Messina, Italy. She is also fellow of Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance. Her research interests focus on cultural history in relation to a range of topics, such as witch-beliefs, imagery of travellers, preaching and crossdressing.

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“This volume … is a study that is genuinely valuable and that should be of interest to all historians interested in the origins of the European witch-hunt.” (Jan Machielsen, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 70 (4), 2019)

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction.- Prototypes: Magic and Witchcraft in Greece.- The Witch as a Woman: Tales of Magic in Rome.- Maleficia: From Late Antiquity to the High Middle Ages.- ‘A Company That Go the Course’.- ‘Let’s Send Up Some Incense to the Lord!’.- The Italian Quattrocento.- ‘Twelve Thousand Circes’.- Bibliography.- Index.