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Trafficking with Demons - Martha Rampton

Trafficking with Demons

Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000

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Buch | Hardcover
480 Seiten
2019
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-0268-6 (ISBN)
CHF 97,75 inkl. MwSt
Trafficking with Demons explores how magic was perceived, practiced, and prohibited in western Europe during the first millennium CE. Through the overlapping frameworks of religion, ritual, and gender, Martha Rampton connects early Christian reckonings with pagan magic to later doctrines and dogmas. Challenging established views on the role of...
Trafficking with Demons explores how magic was perceived, practiced, and prohibited in western Europe during the first millennium CE. Through the overlapping frameworks of religion, ritual, and gender, Martha Rampton connects early Christian reckonings with pagan magic to later doctrines and dogmas. Challenging established views on the role of women in ritual magic during this period, Rampton provides a new narrative of the ways in which magic was embedded within the foundational assumptions of western European society, informing how people understood the cosmos, divinity, and their own Christian faith.


As Rampton shows, throughout the first Christian millennium, magic was thought to play a natural role within the functioning of the universe and existed within a rational cosmos hierarchically arranged according to a "great chain of being." Trafficking with the "demons of the lower air" was the essense of magic. Interactions with those demons occurred both in highly formalistic, ritual settings and on a routine and casual basis. Rampton tracks the competition between pagan magic and Christian belief from the first century CE, when it was fiercest, through the early Middle Ages, as atavistic forms of magic mutated and found sanctuary in the daily habits of the converted peoples and new paganisms entered Europe with their own forms of magic. By the year 1000, she concludes, many forms of magic had been tamed and were, by the reckoning of the elite, essentially ineffective, as were the women who practiced it and the rituals that attended it.

Martha Rampton is Professor of History at Pacific University. She is editor of European Magic and Witchcraft.

Introduction

Part 1: Studying Magic

1. Magic and Its Sources in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

2. Demons of the Lower Air

Part 2: Breaking In: Christianity in Classical Rome

3. Ritual, Demons, and Sacred Space

4. A Thousand Vacuous Observances

5. Maleficium and Traffic with the Dead

6. Screech Owl, Vampire, Moon, and Women's Magic

Part 3: Traffic with Demons: Post-Roman Europe

7. Sub Dio

8. Victimless Magic and Execrable Remedies

9. The Awesome Power of the Women's Craft

Part 4: Skepticism: The Carolingian Era

10. Demonization of the Natural World

11. Superstition and Divination Questioned

12. Women's Magic Challenged

13. Magic, Women, and the Carolingian Court

14. Magic and Materia Medica

15. Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Ithaca
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 907 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Mittelalter
Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Weitere Religionen
ISBN-10 1-5017-0268-8 / 1501702688
ISBN-13 978-1-5017-0268-6 / 9781501702686
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