Martha Rampton Trafficking with Demons: Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000 9781501702686

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Автор: Martha Rampton
Название: Trafficking with Demons: Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000
ISBN: 9781501702686
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

Средневековая история

Религии и верования

Сравнительное религиоведение

Христианство

Оккультные науки

ISBN-10: 1501702688
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 480
Вес: 0.06 кг.
Дата издания: 15.01.2022
Язык: English
Размер: 163 x 237 x 39
Ключевые слова: Medieval history, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Occultism,HISTORY / Medieval
Подзаголовок: Magic, ritual, and gender from late antiquity to 1000
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Поставляется из: Англии
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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.

Дополнительное описание:

Introduction
Part 1: Studying Magic
1. Magic and Its Sources in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
2. Demons of the Lower Air
Part 2: Breaking In: Christianity in Classical Rome
3. Ritual, Demons, and Sacred Space

Trafficking with Demons: Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000, Martha Rampton