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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 2000The roots of European witchcraft and magic lie in Hebrew and other ancient Near Eastern cultures and in the Celtic, Nordic, and Germanic traditions of the Continent. For two millennia, European folklore and ritual have been imbued w...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
384
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN #
0812217055
EAN Code
9780812217056
ISBN #
9
During the Middle Ages a shared European concept of magic emerged. In the early period, pagan beliefs and practices were absorbed into everyday culture, including the rituals of the Church. The rise of the practice of "white magic" in the twelfth century became so popular that it caused a widespread...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
304
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN #
9780812217865
EAN Code
9780812217865
ISBN #
6
Each volume in the series Witchcraft and Magic in Europe combines the traditional approaches of political, legal, and social historians with a critical synthesis of cultural anthropology, historical psychology, and gender studies. The series, complete in six volumes, provides a modern, scholarly sur...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
224
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN #
081221787X
EAN Code
9780812217872
ISBN #
5
The roots of European witchcraft and magic lie in Hebrew and other ancient Near Eastern cultures and in the Celtic, Nordic, and Germanic traditions of the Continent. For two millennia, European folklore and ritual have been imbued with the belief in the supernatural, yielding a rich trove of histori...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
288
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN #
0812217063
EAN Code
9780812217063
ISBN #
4
This major work offers a new interpretation of the witchcraft beliefs of European intellectuals between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, showing how these beliefs fitted rationally with other beliefs of the period and how far the nature of rationality is dependent on its historical context.
Author
Stuart Clark
Binding
Paperback
Pages
850
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0198208081
EAN Code
9780198208082
ISBN #
3
In September of 1859, the entire Earth was engulfed in a gigantic cloud of seething gas, and a blood-red aurora erupted across the planet from the poles to the tropics. Around the world, telegraph systems crashed, machines burst into flames, and electric shocks rendered operators unconscious. Com...
Author
Stuart Clark
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
224
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN #
0691126607
EAN Code
9780691126609
ISBN #
2
A groundbreaking guide to the universe and how our latest deep-space discoveries are forcing us to revisit what we know―and what we don't. On March 21, 2013, the European Space Agency released a map of the afterglow of the Big Bang. Taking in 440 sextillion kilometres of space and 13.8 billion years...
Author
Stuart Clark
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
288
Publisher
Pegasus Books
ISBN #
1681771535
EAN Code
9781681771533
ISBN #
1
Author
Stuart Clark
Binding
Paperback
Publisher
Head of Zeus
ISBN #
1781855706
EAN Code
9781781855706
ISBN #
8
Author
Stuart Clark
ISBN #
0195210875
Author
Stuart Clark
ISBN #
0198200013
Author
Stuart Clark
ISBN #
0198208081
Author
Stuart Clark
ISBN #
0199250138
Author
Stuart Clark
ISBN #
0312238126
Author
Stuart Clark
ISBN #
0312238134
Author
Stuart Clark
ISBN #
0333793498
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