The uses of supernatural power : the transformation of popular religion in medieval and early-modern Europe /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Klaniczay, Gábor
Other Authors:	Margolis, Karen
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1990]
Subjects:	Europe, Central > Church history > Middle Ages, 600-1500. Witchcraft > Europe, Central > History. Magic > Europe, Central > History. Christian heresies > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500. Saints > Europe, Central > Cult.

Table of Contents:

The carnival spirit
Religious movements and Christian culture - - Fashionable beards and heretic rags
From sacral kingship to self- representation
Legends as life-strategies for aspirant saints in the later Middle Ages
The cult of dynastic saints in central Europe
Shamanistic elements in central European witchcraft
Witch-hunting in Hungary
The decline of witches and the rise of vampires under the eighteenth-century Habsburg monarchy.