عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
BF1584.S23 M58 2011
BF1584
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S23
M58
2011
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0812222555 (paperback)
(Number (ISBN
0812242904 (alk. paper)
(Number (ISBN
9780812222555 (paperback)
(Number (ISBN
9780812242904 (alk. paper)
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
b415464
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Witchcraft and magic in the Nordic Middle Ages /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
Stephen A. Mitchell.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Philadelphia :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Pennsylvania Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
©2011.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xiii, 368 pages ;
Dimensions
24 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
The Middle Ages series
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-352) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Witchcraft and the past -- Magic and witchcraft in daily life -- Narrating magic, sorcery, and witchcraft -- Medieval mythologies -- Witchcraft, magic, and the law -- Witchcraft, sorcery, and gender -- Epilogue: the medieval legacy.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
By examining witches, wizards, and seeresses in literature, lore, and law, as well as surviving charm magic directed toward love, prophecy, health, and weather, Mitchell provides a portrait of both the practitioners of medieval Nordic magic and its performance. With an understanding of mythology as a living system of cultural signs (not just ancient sacred narratives), this study also focuses on such powerful evolving myths as those of "the milk-stealing witch, the diabolical pact, and the witches' journey to Blakulla. Court cases involving witchcraft, charm magic, and apostasy demonstrate that witchcraft ideologies played a key role in conceptualizing gender and were themselves an important means of exercising social control. --Book Jacket.
Text of Note
Mitchell's starting point is the year 1100, by which time Christianity was well established in elite circles throughout Scandinavia, even as some pre-Christian practices and beliefs persisted in various forms. The book's endpoint coincides with the coming of the Reformation and the onset of the early modern Scandinavian witch hunts. The terrain covered is complex, home to the Germanic Scandinavians as well as their non-Indo-European neighbors, the Sami and Finns, and it encompasses such diverse areas as the important trade cities of Copenhagen, Bergen, and Stockholm, with their large foreign populations; the rural hinterlands; and the insular outposts of Iceland and Greenland.
Text of Note
Stephen A. Mitchell here offers the fullest examination available of witchcraft in late medieval Scandinavia. He focuses on those people believed to be able--and who in some instances thought themselves able--to manipulate the world around them through magical practices, and on the responses to these beliefs in the legal, literary, and popular cultures of the Nordic Middle Ages. His sources range from the Icelandic sagas to cultural monuments much less familiar to the nonspecialist, including legal cases, church art, law codes, ecclesiastical records, and runic spells.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Magic-- Scandinavia-- History.
Witchcraft-- Scandinavia-- History.
History, Early Modern 1451-1600-- Scandinavian and Nordic Countries.
History, Medieval-- Scandinavian and Nordic Countries.
Magic-- history-- Scandinavian and Nordic Countries.
Witchcraft-- history-- Scandinavian and Nordic Countries.
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
133
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4/309480902
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
BF1584
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S23
Book number
M58
2011
OTHER CLASS NUMBERS
Class number
2015
F-994
Class number
WZ
309
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Mitchell, Stephen A., (Stephen Arthur),1951-
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20151109025630.0
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
Y
