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Trafficking with demons : magic, ritual, and gender from late antiquity to 1000 / Martha Rampton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rampton, Martha, author.
- Series:
- Cornell scholarship online.
- Cornell scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Magic--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Magic.
- Magic--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.
- Magic--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Women in Christianity--Europe--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.
- Women in Christianity.
- Women in Christianity--Europe--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st edition
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- 'Trafficking with Demons' explores how magic was perceived, practiced and prohibited in western Europe during the first millennium CE. Through the overlapping frameworks of religion, ritual and gender, the book connects early Christian reckonings with pagan magic to later doctrines and dogmas. Challenging established views on the role of women in ritual magic during this period, the book provides a new narrative of the ways in which magic was embedded within the foundational assumptions of western European society, informing how people understood the cosmos, divinity and their own Christian faith.
- Contents:
- Magic and its sources in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages
- Demons of the lower air
- Ritual, demons, and sacred space
- A thousand vacuous observances
- Maleficium and traffic with the dead
- Screech-owl, vampire, moon, and women's magic
- Sub dio
- Victimless magic and execrable remedies
- The awesome power of the woman's craft
- Demonization of the natural world
- Superstition and divination questioned
- Women's magic challenged
- Magic, women, and the Carolingian court
- Magic and materia medica
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 2, 2022).
- Also issued in print: 2022.
- ISBN:
- 9781501785207
- 1501785206
- 9781501735318
- 1501735314
- OCLC:
- 1050141837
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