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Everyday Magic in Early Modern Europe

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Everyday Magic in Early Modern Europe

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Everyday Magic in Early Modern Europe book

Everyday Magic in Early Modern Europe

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Everyday Magic in Early Modern Europe book

ByKathryn A. Edwards
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2016
eBook Published 1 March 2016
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315581330
Pages 198
eBook ISBN 9781315581330
Subjects Humanities
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Edwards, K.A. (2016). Everyday Magic in Early Modern Europe (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315581330

ABSTRACT

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 task. This collection offers one method of demystifying this world of everyday magic. Integrating case studies and more theoretical responses to the magical and preternatural, the authors here demonstrate that what we think of as extraordinary was often accepted as legitimate, if unusual, occurrences or practices. In their treatment of and attitudes towards spirit-assisted treasure-hunting, magical recipes, trials for sanctity, and visits by guardian angels, early modern Europeans showed more acceptance of and comfort with the extraordinary than modern scholars frequently acknowledge. Even witchcraft could be more pervasive and less threatening than many modern interpretations suggest. Magic was both mundane and mysterious in early modern Europe, and the witches who practiced it could in many ways be quite ordinary members of their communities. The vivid cases described in this volume should make the reader question how to distinguish the ordinary and extraordinary and the extent to which those terms need to be redefined for an early modern context. They should also make more immediate a world in which magic was an everyday occurrence.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|10 pages

Introduction: What Makes Magic Everyday Magic?

ByKathryn A. Edwards

chapter 2|24 pages

Magical Lives: Daily Practices and Intellectual Discourses in Enchanted Catalonia during the Early Modern Era

ByKathryn A. Edwards

chapter 3|16 pages

Lived Lutheranism and Daily Magic in Seventeenth-Century

ByFinland

chapter 4|20 pages

The Guardian Angel: From the Natural to the Supernatural

ByAntoine Mazurek

chapter 5|22 pages

False Sanctity and Spiritual Imposture in Seventeenth-Century

ByFrench Convents

chapter 6|12 pages

Magic, Dreams, and Money

ByJared Poley

chapter 7|22 pages

The Good Magicians: Treasure Hunting in Early Modern

ByGermany

chapter 8|20 pages

A Christian Warning: Bartholomaeus Anhorn, Demonology, and Divination

ByKathryn A. Edwards

chapter 9|14 pages

The “Antidemons” of Calvinism: Ghosts, Demons, and Traditional Belief in the House of François Perrault

ByKathryn A. Edwards

chapter 10|20 pages

The Constitution and Conditions of Everyday Magic in Late Medieval and Early Modern Catholic Europe

ByKathryn A. Edwards
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