1st Edition

Everyday Magic in Early Modern Europe

By Kathryn A. Edwards Copyright 2016
198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

198 Pages
by Routledge

While pre-modern Europe is often seen as having an 'enchanted' or 'magical' worldview, the full implications of such labels remain inconsistently explored. Witchcraft, demonology, and debates over pious practices have provided the main avenues for treating those themes, but integrating them with other activities and ideas seen as forming an enchanted Europe has proven to be a much more difficult... Read more

Introduction: what makes magic everyday magic?, Kathryn A. Edwards; Magical lives: daily practices and intellectual discourses in enchanted Catalonia during the early modern era, Doris Moreno Martínez; Lived Lutheranism and daily magic in 17th-century Finland, Raisa Maria Toivo; The guardian angel: from the natural to the supernatural, Antoine Mazurek; False sanctity and spiritual imposture in 17th-century French convents, Linda Lierheimer; Magic, dreams, and money, Jared Poley; The good magicians: treasure hunting in early modern Germany, Johannes Dillinger; A Christian warning: Bartholomaeus Anhorn, demonology, and divination, Jason Coy; The ‘antidemons’ of Calvinism: ghosts, demons, and traditional belief in the house of François Perrault, Kathryn A. Edwards; The constitution and conditions of everyday magic in late medieval and early modern Catholic Europe, Sarah Ferber; Index.

Biography

Kathryn A. Edwards is Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, USA. Her publications include Leonarde’s Ghost: Popular Piety and The Appearance of a Spirit in 1628 (2008; coauthored with Susie Speakman Sutch), Werewolves, Witches, and Wandering Spirits (2002; editor), and Families and Frontiers: Family and Communal Re-creation in the Early Modern Burgundies (2002). She is finishing a book on ghost beliefs, Living with Ghosts: The Dead in European Society from the Black Death to the Enlightenment.