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Book Number
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000322419
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ISBN
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 9780367557676 (paperback)
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9780367557690 (hardback)
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9781003095064 (ebook)
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Title
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Folklore, magic, and witchcraft :. cultural exchanges from the twelfth to eighteenth century / edited by Marina Montesano.
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Imprint
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London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
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Descr.
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xiv, 302 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Series
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( Routledge studies in the history of witchcraft, demonology and magic)
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Bibliogr.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
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The tree of the Bourlémonts : gendered beliefs in fairies and their transmission from old to young women in Joan of Arc’s Domrémy / Andrea Maraschi -- The rejuvenating blood : Marsilio Ficino and the witches / Marina Montesano -- The circulation and exchange of ideas, myths, legends, and oral traditions in the witchcraft trials of Italy / Debora Moretti -- Between Hell and paradise : the legend of the soul of the Emperor Trajan / Vincenzo Tedesco -- Artificial creation of human life : Ibn Waḥšiyya as a source of the Futūḥāt al-makkiyya / Michele Petrone -- Fragments of a Jewish magical tradition in the library of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola / Flavia Buzzetta -- Parallel beliefs : cultural exchange between Jews and Christians on magic and witchcraft, and the concerns of the Inquisition / Marina Caffiero -- Some reports of magic, superstition, and witchcraft in the medieval Mirabilia literature / Christa Agnes Tuczay --
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’Diabolical sorceries’ : Vicent Ferrer’s preaching and the emergence of the witchcraft construct(s) in early fifteenth-century Europe / Pau Castell -- Circulation of magic and folkloric traditions in the times of Antonino of Florence and Bernardino of Siena / Fabrizio Conti -- Against the body of Christ : exchanges and cultural upheavals in early modern Italy / Matteo Al Kalak -- The natural and the supernatural : collecting, interests, and trials of the Nuncio Decio Francesco Vitelli in Venice, 1632-1643 / Marco Albertoni -- The witch unravelled : how Pieter Bruegel the Elder developed a visual code to depict witchcraft and sorcery / Renilde Vervoort -- Ignorantia and superstitio : a discussion among theologians and inquisitors in the sixteenth century / Michaela Valente -- The MP and the astrologer : rival cultures of witchcraft in the East Anglian witchhunt / Danny Buck -- A witchcraft triangle : transmitting witchcraft ideas across early modern Europe / Liv Helene Willumsen --
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The shape of evil : familiars and shapeshifting witches in seventeenth-century Finnmark / Amber R. Cederström -- Circulating knowledge in an enlightened discourse : Eberhard David Hauber’s Witchcraft quarterly, 1738-1745 / Rita Voltmer.
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Abstract
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"This volume offers eighteen studies linked together by a common focus on the circulation and reception of motifs and beliefs in the field of folklore, magic, and witchcraft. With analysis of sources from manuscripts and archival documents to iconography, and drawing on writings in Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, and other languages, this volume is essential reading for all students and scholars interested in cultural exchange and ideas about folklore, magic, and witchcraft in medieval and early modern Europe"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject - Lib.Cong.
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Folklore -- Europe -- History.
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Magic -- Europe -- History.
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Witchcraft -- Europe -- History.
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Culture diffusion -- Europe -- History.
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Add.Entry
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Montesano, Marina editor.
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Holdings
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Gennadius Library
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