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Acknowledgements |
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Contents |
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Notes on Contributors |
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List of Figures |
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List of Table |
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Approaches to Magic, Heresy and Witchcraft in Time, Space and Faith |
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Witchcraft |
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Magic |
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Heresy |
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Notes |
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Part I: Heresy |
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‘Night is conceded to the dead’: Revenant Congregations in the Middle Ages |
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A Gathering of the Dead, or of Demons? |
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Marvelous, Ancient Sacrifices |
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Thinking with the Dead |
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Notes |
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Heresy and Heterodoxy in Medieval Scandinavia |
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Introduction |
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Terminology |
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Heresy in Medieval Scandinavia |
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Concluding Discussion |
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Notes |
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Caught Between Unorthodox Medicine and Unorthodox Religion: Revisiting the Case of Costantino Saccardini, Charlatan-Heretic |
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Notes |
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Part II: Magic |
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Angel Magic and the Cult of Angels in the Later Middle Ages |
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The Issues at Stake |
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Four Texts of Angel Magic from the Later Medieval West |
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Efforts to Regulate the Veneration of Angels |
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Devotion to Angels and Conceptions of Angels: The Scope of Toleration |
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The Hazards of Conjuration |
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Notes |
108 |
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Polyphony and Pragmatism in Scandinavian Spells c.1300–1600 |
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Notes |
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The Divining Rod: Origins, Explanations and Uses in the Thirteenth to Eighteenth Centuries |
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Notes |
151 |
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Ignorant Superstition? Popular Education on Magic in Early Seventeenth-Century Confessionalist Finland: The Case of Mary and the Rosaries |
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Magic, Superstition and Witchcraft in Early Modern Finland |
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Idolatry and Lip Service vs Obedient Mary |
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Traces of the Cult of Mary in the Lutheran County of Satakunta |
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A Tradition of Catholic Reformation and Lutheran Superstition? |
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Early Seventeenth-Century Magic and Superstition as Ignorance |
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Notes |
170 |
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Part III: Witchcraft |
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The Witch of Endor Before the Witch Trials |
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Notes |
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Preaching on Witchcraft? The Sermons of Johannes Geiler of Kaysersberg (1445–1510) |
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Johannes Geiler of Kaysersberg (1445–1510): Some Introductory Remarks |
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No Place for Witches: Johannes Geiler of Kaysersberg and His Concept of Urban Reform |
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Superstition, Sorcery and Witchcraft in the Sermons of Johannes Geiler (Until 1509) |
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Johannes Geiler and His Concepts of Witchcraft (1509) |
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Conclusion |
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Notes |
216 |
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Law, Nature, Theology and Witchcraft in Ponzinibio’s De lamiis (1511) |
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Notes |
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The Infected and the Guilty: On Heresy and Witchcraft in Post-Reformation Denmark |
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The Concept of Heresy |
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First-Generation Reformers, Witchcraft and Heresy |
242 |
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The Admonitions of Niels Hemmingsen on Heresy and Witchcraft |
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Legislation on Witchcraft and Heresy |
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In Court |
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Conclusion |
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Notes |
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The Laughing Witch: Notes on the Relationship Between Literature and History in the Early Fifteenth Century |
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The centrepiece of this chapter is an early fifteenth-century play in the Dutch language, now known by the anachronistic name Die Hexe (The Witch), a name I will keep here for convenience sake. The main question I will pose here is how this play shou |
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A Farce |
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The Waning of the Middle Ages |
264 |
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Ascribed Witchcraft |
268 |
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Contemporary Concepts |
270 |
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A Popular Wizard |
273 |
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Fictional Witchcraft |
276 |
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Notes |
278 |
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Images, Representations and the Self-Perception of Magic among the Sami Shamans of Arctic Norway, 1592–1692 |
284 |
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‘Nordmythos’ |
285 |
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The Septentrionale Region and the Big Dipper |
289 |
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Wind Knots and Weather Magic |
291 |
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The Sami and the Witch Trials |
293 |
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Sorcery Persecutions of the Sami |
295 |
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The Self-Perception of Magic among the Sami Shamans |
298 |
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Witchcraft Conspiracy at the Frontiers of European Civilization |
299 |
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Territorial Expansion, State-Building and Witchcraft |
300 |
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Notes |
303 |
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Bibliography |
306 |
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Archival (Unprinted) Sources |
306 |
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Sources and Bibliography Printed Before 1900 |
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Sources and Bibliography Printed Since 1900 |
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Index |
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