Trafficking with Demons : Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000.
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.
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2022.
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Obsah:
- TRAFFICKING WITH DEMONS
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 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. The Screech Owl, the Vampire, the Moon, and the Woman
- Part 3: Traffic with Demons: Post-Roman Europe
- 7. Sub Dio
- 8. Victimless Magic and Execrable Remedies
- 9. The Awesome Power of the Woman's Craft
- Part 4: Skepticism: The Carolingian Era
- 10. Placemaking and 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
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index