The Cambridge history of magic and witchcraft in the west from antiquity to the present
This book provides a thorough and interdisciplinary overview of the theory and practice of magic in the West in twenty chapters by expert in their fields. Its chronological scope extends from the Ancient Near East to twenty-first-century North America; its objects of analysis range from Persian curs...
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| Sprache: | English |
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New York, NY
Cambridge University Press
2018
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| Ausgabe: | First paperback edition |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction / David J. Collins
- Antiquity. The ancient Near East / Daniel Schwemer
- Ancient Egypt / Friedhelm Hoffmann
- Early Greco-Roman antiquity / Kimberly B. Stratton
- The early Latin West. Roman antiquity: the imperial period / Kyle A. Fraser
- The early Church / Maijastina Kahlos
- The early medieval West / Yitzhak Hen
- Parallel traditions. Magic in medieval Byzantium / Alicia Walker
- Magic, marvel, and miracle in early Islamic thought / Travis Zadeh
- Jewish magic in the Middle Ages / Gideon Bohak
- Old Europe. Common magic / Catherine Rider
- Learned magic / David J. Collins
- Diabolic magic / Michael D. Bailey
- Magic and priestcraft: reformers and reformation / Helen Parish
- Colonial encounters. Spain and Mexico / Louise M. Burkhart
- Folk magic in British North America / Richard Godbeer
- Colonial magic: the Dutch East Indies / Margaret J. Wiener
- The modern West. Magic in common and legal perspectives / Owen Davies
- Elite magic in the nineteenth century / David Allen Harvey
- Magic in the postcolonial Americas / Raquel Romberg
- New Age and neopagan magic / Sabina Magliocco