Classical culture and witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Italy /
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| Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2018.
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| Series: | Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction; Prototypes: Magic and Witchcraft in Greece; Circe: A Dread Goddess of Human Speech; Medea, the Barbarian Sorcerer; Words of Magic; Women on Trial; Scary Monsters; The Witch as a Woman: Tales of Magic in Rome; Canidia, Erichtho, Meroe and the Others; Poisons or Medicines?; Laws and Trials; The Wise Women; The Wicked Shapeshifters; Maleficia: From Late Antiquity to the High Middle Ages; Christian Laws; The Bible and Its Latin Translations; Augustine and The Golden Ass; Isidore, the Strix and the Striga; Barbaric Laws
- The Pagan Course'A Company That Go the Course'; A Classical Revival: Magic and Mirabilia in Rome; Written and Oral Lore; Preaching and Circulating the News; Dames and Estries; Magic in the City; 'Let's Send Up Some Incense to the Lord!'; A Renaissance for the Church; The Barlotto; Idolaters; '.... de' fatti de le streghe'; Finicella and Santuccia; The Italian Quattrocento; Stregatum in Benevento; 'Vampires'; From Sorcery to Witchcraft; Poets to Admire or to Believe?; The Humanist and the Lamia; 'Twelve Thousand Circes'; The Renaissance Dialogue
- 'Old Women Who Had Not Read Plutarch or Herodotus'Painters and Poets; Bibliography; Index