The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West: From Antiquity to the Present, David J. Collins, S. J.
Автор: Ogden, Daniel. Название: Magic, witchcraft, and ghosts in the Greek and Roman worlds : ISBN: 0195385209 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195385205 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3958.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In a culture where the supernatural possessed an immediacy now strange to us, magic was of great importance both in the literary and mythic tradition and in ritual practice. Recently, ancient magic has hit a high in popularity, both as an area of scholarly inquiry and as one of general, popular interest. In Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds Daniel Ogden presents three hundred texts in new translations, along with brief but explicit commentaries. This is the first book in the field to unite extensive selections from both literary and documentary sources. Alongside descriptions of sorcerers, witches, and ghosts in the works of ancient writers, it reproduces curse tablets, spells from ancient magical recipe books, and inscriptions from magical amulets. Each translation is followed by a commentary that puts it in context within ancient culture and connects the passage to related passages in this volume. Authors include the well known (Sophocles, Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Pliny) and the less familiar, and extend across the whole of Greco-Roman antiquity. The second edition includes a new preface, an updated bibliography, and new source-passages, such as the earliest use of the word mage in Greek (fr. Aeschylus' Persians ), a werewolf tale (Aesop's Fables), and excerpts from the most systematic account of ancient legislation against magic (Theodosian Code).
Автор: Scarre, Geoffrey Callow, John (lecturer In History Название: Witchcraft and magic in sixteenth and seventeenth century europe ISBN: 0333920821 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333920824 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 3772.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In their study of witchcraft and magic in 16th and 17th-century Europe, Geoffrey Scarre and John Callow provide an examination of the theoretical and intellectual rationales which made prosecution for the crime acceptable to the continent`s judiciaries.
Описание: Exploring the elements of reality in early modern witchcraft and popular magic, through a combination of detailed archival research and broad-ranging interdisciplinary analyses, this book complements and challenges existing scholarship, and offers unique insights into this murky aspect of early modern history.
Автор: Duane W. Roller Название: A Historical and Topographical Guide to the Geography of Strabo ISBN: 1107180651 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107180659 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 28829.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Geography of Strabo is the primary source for the history of Greek geography. This Guide provides the first English commentary on this long and difficult text, and serves as a companion to the author`s The Geography of Strabo, the first English translation of the work in many years.
Автор: Brian Hughes; Fergus Robson Название: Unconventional Warfare from Antiquity to the Present Day ISBN: 3319495259 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319495255 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Chapter 1: Introduction Guerrillas and Counterinsurgency in History; Brian Hughes and Fergus Robson.- Part I: Insurgents, Counter-Insurgency, and Civilians in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.- Chapter 2: Gender and 'Population-centric' Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan; Julia Welland.- Chapter 3: 'The Best Fellagha Hunter is the French of North African Descent': Harkis in French Algeria; Raphaлlle Branche.- Chapter 4: 'Black-and-Tan tendencies': policing insurgency in the Palestine Mandate, 1922-48; Seбn William Gannon.- Chapter 5: 'The Entire Population of this God-forsaken Island is Terrorised by a Small Band of Gun-men': Guerrillas and Civilians during the Irish Revolution; Brian Hughes.- Chapter 6: American Civil War Guerrillas; Daniel E. Sutherland.- Part II: Small War from the Early Modern World to Antiquity.- Chapter 7: Insurgent Identities, Destructive Discourses, and Militarized Massacre: French Armies on the Warpath Against Insurgents in the Vendйe, Italy, and Egypt; Fergus Robson.- Chapter 8: Lords of the Forests in Flanders: Small War by Freebooters and the Dutch Contributions System in Flanders, 1584-1592; Tim Piceu.- Chapter 9: 'A Great Company of Country Clowns': Guerrilla Warfare in the East Anglian and Western Rebellions (1549); Alexander Hodgkins.- Chapter 10: Good King Robert's Testament?: Guerrilla Warfare in Later Medieval Scotland; Alastair J. Macdonald.- Chapter 11: Guerrilla Warfare and Revolt in 2nd Century BC Egypt; Brian McGing.- Chapter 12: Unorthodox Warfare? Variety and Change in Archaic Greek Warfare (ca. 700- ca. 480 B.C.E.); Matthew Lloyd
Автор: Jolly, Peters, and Raudvere Название: Witchcraft and magic in Europe. Vol.3 The Middle Ages ISBN: 0485891034 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780485891034 Издательство: Continuum Рейтинг: Цена: 17820.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Between the age of St. Augustine and the sixteenth century reformations magic continued to be both a matter of popular practice and of learned inquiry. This volume deals with its use in such contexts as healing and divination and as an aspect of the knowledge of nature`s occult virtues and secrets.
In the courtrooms of seventeenth-century Russia, the great majority of those accused of witchcraft were male, in sharp contrast to the profile of accused witches across Catholic and Protestant Europe in the same period. While European courts targeted and executed overwhelmingly female suspects, often on charges of compacting with the devil, the tsars’ courts vigorously pursued men and some women accused of practicing more down-to-earth magic, using poetic spells and home-grown potions. Instead of Satanism or heresy, the primary concern in witchcraft testimony in Russia involved efforts to use magic to subvert, mitigate, or avenge the harsh conditions of patriarchy, serfdom, and social hierarchy.
Broadly comparative and richly illustrated with color plates, Desperate Magic places the trials of witches in the context of early modern Russian law, religion, and society. Piecing together evidence from trial records to illuminate some of the central puzzles of Muscovite history, Kivelson explores the interplay among the testimony of accusers, the leading questions of the interrogators, and the confessions of the accused. Assembled, they create a picture of a shared moral vision of the world that crossed social divides. Because of the routine use of torture in extracting and shaping confessions, Kivelson addresses methodological and ideological questions about the Muscovite courts’ equation of pain and truth, questions with continuing resonance in the world today. Within a moral economy that paired unquestioned hierarchical inequities with expectations of reciprocity, magic and suspicions of magic emerged where those expectations were most egregiously violated. Witchcraft in Russia surfaces as one of the ways that oppression was contested by ordinary people scrambling to survive in a fiercely inequitable world. Masters and slaves, husbands and wives, and officers and soldiers alike believed there should be limits to exploitation and saw magic deployed at the junctures where hierarchical order veered into violent excess.
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, Martha Rampton 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, Rampton 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.
As Rampton shows, throughout the first Christian millennium, magic was thought to play a natural role within the functioning of the universe and existed within a rational cosmos hierarchically arranged according to a "great chain of being." Trafficking with the "demons of the lower air" was the essense of magic. Interactions with those demons occurred both in highly formalistic, ritual settings and on a routine and casual basis. Rampton tracks the competition between pagan magic and Christian belief from the first century CE, when it was fiercest, through the early Middle Ages, as atavistic forms of magic mutated and found sanctuary in the daily habits of the converted peoples and new paganisms entered Europe with their own forms of magic. By the year 1000, she concludes, many forms of magic had been tamed and were, by the reckoning of the elite, essentially ineffective, as were the women who practiced it and the rituals that attended it.
Автор: Gibson, Marion Название: Rediscovering renaissance witchcraft ISBN: 1138025453 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138025455 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6123.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Rediscovering Renaissance Witchcraft traces witchcraft from the 16th century through to today, exploring material across `Witchcraft studies`, covering literature, politics and journalism to investigate the fascination with witchcraft through history. This book is essential reading for students of witchcraft, early modern history and literature.
Автор: Reilly Kevin Название: West and the World, 1400 to Present ISBN: 1558761535 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781558761537 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 6060.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This work covers topics such as gender, religion, war, ecology, and nationalism, creating both thematic narratives and the strands of a larger chronological account. It explores major historical turning points, and reveals the dynamic of increasing global interactions.
Автор: Heuman Gad Название: The Caribbean: A Brief History ISBN: 1350036919 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350036918 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 4275.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In this new edition of his crucial introduction to Caribbean history, Gad Heuman provides a comprehensive overview of the region's history, from its earliest inhabitants to contemporary political and cultural developments. Topics covered include:
- The Amerindians - Sugary and Slavery - Race, Racism and Equality - The Aftermath of Emancipation - The Revolutionary Caribbean - Cultures of the Caribbean - Contemporary Themes
This third edition has been updated to reflect the latest developments in the literature, and takes into account important recent events including the rapprochement between the U.S. and Cuba, the ongoing problem of climate change and the threat of the Zika virus. The companion website, which includes chapter questions, a primary documents bibliography, a timeline and link to relevant websites, has also been updated with new material. The book considers not only the political and social struggles that have shaped the Caribbean, but also provides a sense of the development of the region's culture. The Caribbean: A Brief History is ideal for all students seeking a clear and readable introduction to Caribbean history.
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