The Oxford History of Witchcraft and Magic by Owen Davies 9780192884077 0192884077

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• ISBN 10:0192884077
• ISBN 13:9780192884077
• Author: Owen Davies

The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic

Table contents:

1. Magic in the Ancient World
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Jewish Magic
Greeks
Romans
2. Medieval Magic
From Arabic into Latin: Translating Activity and Learned Magic
Natural Magic
Image Magic
Angel Magic
Demonic Magic
Heresy, Sorcery, and Witchcraft
The Defence of Magic
3. The Demonologists
The Development of the Demonological System
Some Demonological Issues
Demonology in Decline
4. The Witch Trials
Witch Trials: The Causes of Prosecutions
Witchcraft: The Law and the Impact of Torture
What the Sources Tell Us
The Witch in the Records
The Spread of the Trials: The Influence of Reportage
The End of the Witch Trials?
5. The Witch and Magician in European Art
The New Visual Imagery of Witchcraft, 1490–1590
Witchcraft as Religious and Social Threat, 1590–1640
Witchcraft and Imaginative Fantasy, 1620–1670
The Defence of Witchcraft against Scepticism, 1670–1710
The Parodying of Witchcraft and Early Romanticism_ 1710–1800
6. The World of Popular Magic
Why People Performed Magic
The Practice of Popular Magic
Who Performed Popular Magic?
Cunning-Folk
7. The Rise of Modern Magic
The Age of Occult Enlightenment
The Practising Occultists
A New Golden Age
Modern Witchcraft
Modern Witchcraft Moves Overseas
8. Witchcraft and Magic in the Age of Anthropology
From First Contact to Enlightenment Thought
Armchair Anthropology: The Intellectualists and Social Evolution
Coral Gardens and Their Magic: Functionalist Anthropology in the Trobriand Islands
Witchcraft and Magic among the Azande
Myth, Magic, and the Unconscious
Magic, Liminality, and Communitas
Postmodern Approaches to Magic and Witchcraft
Magical Consciousness
Living in a More-than-Human World
9. Witches on Screen
Studying the Screen Witch
An American Fairy Tale
A Series of Witches
‘We Demand a New Image’: The Persistence of the Ugly Witch
The Domestication of the Female Witch
Out of Control
Educating Witches and Wizards
Further Reading

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