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Trafficking with Demons : Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000
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Title
Trafficking with Demons : Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000 / Martha Rampton
ISBN
9781501735301
9781501702686
9781501735318
Edition
1st edition
Publication
Ithaca [New York] Cornell University Press 2019
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022
Copyright Notice Date
©2019
Physical Description
1 online resource (480 pages).
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Summary
"Explores magic and how it changes through the first millennium CE, demonstrating that as elites increasingly came to see magic as relatively impotent, the status of women decreased"-- Provided by publisher
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Project MUSE complete collection 2022.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 19, 2023
Contents
Magic and its sources in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages
Demons of the lower air
Ritual, demons, and sacred space
A thousand vacuous observances
Maleficium and traffic with the dead
Screech-owl, vampire, moon, and women's magic
Sub dio
Victimless magic and execrable remedies
The awesome power of the woman's craft
Demonization of the natural world
Superstition and divination questioned
Women's magic challenged
Magic, women, and the Carolingian court
Magic and materia medica
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Genre/Form
History
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