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Exorcising our demons : magic, witchcraftand visual culture in early modern Europe / by Charles Zika.
Van Pelt Library BF1584.E85 Z55 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zika, Charles.
- Series:
- Studies in medieval and Reformation thought 0585-6914 ; v. 91.
- Studies in medieval and Reformation thought, 0585-6914 ; v. 91
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Witchcraft--Europe--History.
- Witchcraft.
- Magic.
- History.
- Europe.
- Magic--Europe--History.
- Witchcraft in art.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 603 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Demons and Histories 1
- Chapter 1 Reuchlin's De Verbo Mirifico and the Magic Debate of the Late Fifteenth Century 21
- Chapter 2 Reuchlin and Erasmus: Humanism and Occult Philosophy 69
- Chapter 3 Agrippa of Nettesheim and his Appeal to the Cologne Council in 1533: The Politics of Knowledge in Early Sixteenth-Century Germany 99
- Chapter 4 Hosts, Processions and Pilgrimages: Controlling the Sacred in Fifteenth-Century Germany 155
- Chapter 5 The Reformation Jubilee of 1617: Appropriating the Past in European Centenary Celebrations 197
- Chapter 6 Fears of Flying: Representations of Witchcraft and Sexuality in Sixteenth-Century Germany 237
- Chapter 7 She-man: Visual Representations of Witchcraft and Sexuality 269
- Chapter 8 Durer's Witch, Riding Women and Moral Order 305
- Chapter 9 The Wild Cavalcade in Lucas Cranach's Melancholia Paintings: Witchcraft and Sexual Disorder in Sixteenth-Century Germany 333
- Chapter 10 Body Parts, Saturn and Cannibalism: Visual Representations of Witches' Assemblies in the Sixteenth Century 375
- Chapter 11 Fashioning New Worlds from Old Fathers: Reflections on Saturn, Amerindians and Witches in a Sixteenth-Century Print 411
- Chapter 12 Cannibalism and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe: Reading the Visual Images 445
- Chapter 13 Appropriating Folklore in Sixteenth-Century Witchcraft Literature: The Nebelkappe of Paulus Frisius 481
- Chapter 14 Writing the Visual into History: Changing Cultural Perceptions of Late Medieval and Reformation Germany 523
- Chapter 15 Nuremberg: The City and its Culture in the Early Sixteenth Century 553.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9004125604
- OCLC:
- 50738245
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