Trafficking with Demons
Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000
"Martha Rampton argues that the greatest change to magic in a thousand years occurred when Carolingian elites discounted the effectiveness of many magical rites, especially those practiced by women. This sweeping book is an important contribution to the history of magic and of women in the first millennium."
Michael Bailey, Professor and Director of Graduate Education , Iowa State University, and associate
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. Les mer
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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...
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- Forlag
- Cornell University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 480
- ISBN
- 9781501702686
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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"Martha Rampton argues that the greatest change to magic in a thousand years occurred when Carolingian elites discounted the effectiveness of many magical rites, especially those practiced by women. This sweeping book is an important contribution to the history of magic and of women in the first millennium."
Michael Bailey, Professor and Director of Graduate Education , Iowa State University, and associate
"Trafficking with Demons offers a comprehensive overview of how early medieval magic was perceived. By offering an alternative interpretation of the period, Rampton has filled a gap in recent scholarship on the gendering of early medieval magic practices."
Catherine Rider, Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, University of Exeter, and author of <