Enchanted Europe : Superstition, Reason, and Religion, 1250-1750 /
'Enchanted Europe' offers a comprehensive account of Europe's long, complex relationship with its own folklore and popular religion. From debates over the efficacy of charms and spells, to belief in fairies and demons, Euan Cameron constructs a compelling narrative of the rise and fal...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- The problems of pre-modern life
- A densely populated universe
- Helpful performances : the uses of ritual
- Insight and foresight : techniques of divination
- The Patristic and Early Medieval heritage
- Scholastic demonology in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
- The demonological reading of superstitions in the Late Middle Ages : areas of consensus
- The demonological reading of superstitions in the Late Middle Ages : areas of difference and disagreement
- The pastoral use of the scholastic critique of superstitions
- Some Renaissance Christian humanists and 'superstition'
- Magic, the fallen world, and fallen humanity : Martin Luther on the devil and superstitions
- Prodigies, providences, and possession : the sixteenth-century Protestant context
- The Protestant critique of consecrations : Catholicism as superstition
- The Reformed doctrine of providence and the transformation of the Devil
- Reformed Catholicism : purifying sources, defending traditions
- Demonology becomes an open subject in the seventeenth century
- Defending the 'invisible world' : the campaign against 'saducism'
- Towards the Enlightenment.