Building magic : ritual and re-enchantment in post-medieval structures / Owen Davies, Ceri Houlbrook.
2021
BF1611
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Title
Building magic : ritual and re-enchantment in post-medieval structures / Owen Davies, Ceri Houlbrook.
Author
Davies, Owen, 1969-
ISBN
9783030767655 (electronic bk.)
3030767655 (electronic bk.)
3030767647
9783030767648
3030767655 (electronic bk.)
3030767647
9783030767648
Publication Details
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language
English
Description
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10.1007/978-3-030-76765-5 doi
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BF1611
Dewey Decimal Classification
133.4409
Summary
This book redresses popular interpretations of concealed objects, enigmatically discovered within the fabric of post-medieval buildings. A wide variety of objects have been found up chimneybreasts, bricked up in walls, and concealed within recesses: old shoes, mummified cats, horse skulls, pierced hearts, to name only some. The most common approach to these finds is to apply a one-size-fits-all analysis and label them survivals and apotropaic (evil-averting) devices. This book reconsiders such interpretations, exploring the invention and reinvention of traditions regarding building magic. The title Building Magic therefore refers to more than practices that alter the fabric of buildings, but also to processes of building magic into our interpretations of the enigmatic material evidence and into our engagements with the buildings we inhabit and frequent.
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Houlbrook, Ceri, author.
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Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic.
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Table of Contents
1. Folk science meets folk memory: Acoustics and illumination
2. Bodies: Mummified but not Ancient
3. Folk science meets folk memory: Acoustics and illumination
4. Sealing Memories
5. Seeking protection: Objects of power
6. Luck and wellbeing in the home
7. Curators and custodians of the revealed concealed.
2. Bodies: Mummified but not Ancient
3. Folk science meets folk memory: Acoustics and illumination
4. Sealing Memories
5. Seeking protection: Objects of power
6. Luck and wellbeing in the home
7. Curators and custodians of the revealed concealed.