Magic in History Sourcebooks – serie
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Origins of the Witches’ Sabbath
Häftad, 2021
270 kr
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While the perception of magic as harmful is age-old, the notion of witches gathering together in large numbers, overtly worshiping demons, and receiving instruction in how to work harmful magic as part of a conspiratorial plot against Christian society was an innovation of the early fifteenth …
Everyday Magicians
Legal Records and Magic Manuscripts from Tudor England
Av Sharon Hubbs Wright, Frank Klaassen
Häftad, 2022
269 kr
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Most of the women and men who practiced magic in Tudor England were not hanged or burned as witches, despite being active members of their communities. These everyday magicians responded to common human problems such as the vagaries of money, love, property, and influence, and they were essential …
Arras Witch Treatises
Johannes Tinctor's Invectives contre la secte de vauderie and the Recollectio casus, status et condicionis Valdensium ydolatrarum by the Anonymous of Arras (1460)
Av Andrew Colin Gow, Robert B. Desjardins m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
316 kr
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This is the first complete and accessible English translation of two major source texts—Tinctor’s Invectives and the anonymous Recollectio—that arose from the notorious Arras witch hunts and trials in the mid-fifteenth century in France. These writings, by the “Anonymous of Arras” (believed to be …
Hazards of the Dark Arts
Advice for Medieval Princes on Witchcraft and Magic
Häftad, 2022
300 kr
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This volume comprises English translations of two fundamentally important texts on magic and witchcraft in the fifteenth century: Johannes Hartlieb’s Book of All Forbidden Arts and Ulrich Molitoris’s On Witches and Pythonesses. Written by laymen and aimed at secular authorities, these works …
Magic of Rogues
Necromancers in Early Tudor England
Av Frank Klaassen, Sharon Hubbs Wright
Häftad, 2021
269 kr
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In 1510, nine men were tried in the Archbishop’s Court in York for attempting to find and extract a treasure on the moor near Mixindale through necromantic magic. Two decades later, William Neville and his magician were arrested by Thomas Cromwell for having engaged in a treasonous combination of …
Child Witches of Olague
Av Lu Ann Homza
Häftad, 2024
262 kr
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In the early seventeenth century, thousands of children in Spain’s Navarre region claimed to have been bewitched. The Child Witches of Olague features the legal depositions of self-described child witches as well as their parents and victims. The volume sheds new light on Navarre’s massive witch …
Child Witches of Olague
Av Lu Ann Homza
Inbunden, 2024
804 kr
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In the early seventeenth century, thousands of children in Spain’s Navarre region claimed to have been bewitched. The Child Witches of Olague features the legal depositions of self-described child witches as well as their parents and victims. The volume sheds new light on Navarre’s massive witch …
