The realities of witchcraft and popular magic in early modern Europe [electronic resource] : culture, cognition, and everyday life / Edward Bever.
Bever, Edward Watts Morton.
2008
BF1584.E9 B48 2008eb
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Title The realities of witchcraft and popular magic in early modern Europe [electronic resource] : culture, cognition, and everyday life / Edward Bever.
Author Bever, Edward Watts Morton.
ISBN 9780230582118 electronic bk
9781403997814
1403997810
Publication Details New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2008.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xx, 627 p.)
Call Number BF1584.E9 B48 2008eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 133.4/3094
Summary "What did witchcraft and magic in early modern Europe really involve? The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe explores the elements of reality in early modern witchcraft and popular magic through a detailed study of actual cases and broad-ranging interdisciplinary investigations of psychological influences on health, subliminal communication, perception and cognition, and transcultural aspects of shamanism. Assessing the results in light of research in other parts of Europe, it demonstrates that early modern fears of malefic magic reflected actual practices and potential harms; that belief in the Devil not only contributed to but also reflected the perceptual and cognitive processes by which people construct their experience of reality; that beneficent magic was both a pervasive and a potent element in early modern life; and that the systematic repression of magic played a critical role in its eventual decline. The book complements and challenges existing scholarship, offering unique insights into this murky aspect of the past."--Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 504-557) and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic.
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