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Exorcising our Demons: Magic, Witchcraft and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe

by Charles Zika

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  • 21st century
  • Language: English

Description

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This collection of sixteen essays deals with the role of magic, religion and witchcraft in European culture, 1450-1650, and the critical role of the visual in that culture. It covers the relationship of humanism and magic; the intersection of religious ritual, orthodoxy and power; the discursive links between the visual language of witchcraft and contemporary anxieties about sexuality and savagery. The introductory chapter urges us to exorcise our tendency to reduce historical experiences of the demonic to forms of unreason created in a distant past. Only then can we understand the role of the demonic in our historical definition of the self and the other. Richly illustrated with 112 images, the book will interest historians and art historians.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Demonology, angelology, and possession, Ritual magic and grimoires, and Witchcraft and folk magic.

  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the title, “Magic” in the description, “Magic” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Magic”· in title
    • “Magic”· in description
    • “Magic”· in subject
    • “Magic”· in edition title
  • Witchcraft and folk magic

    Controlled discovery queries from openalex matched “witchcraft”. Retained metadata contains “Witchcraft” in the title, “Witchcraft” in the description, and “Witchcraft” in the edition title.

    • “witchcraft”· via OpenAlex
    • “Witchcraft”· in title
    • “Witchcraft”· in description
    • “Witchcraft”· in edition title
  • Demonology, angelology, and possession

    Retained metadata contains “demons” in the title and “demons” in the edition title.

    • “demons”· in title
    • “demons”· in edition title

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

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OpenAlex scholarly book record

2003-01-01—English—Unknown

Subjects

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