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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 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.

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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	15 janvier 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781501735301
Langue	English
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•TRAFFICKING WITH DEMONS

TRAFFICKINGWITHDEMONS Magic , Ritua l , a nd n Ge nde r f rom L ate Antiquit y to 1 000

M a rth a R a m p to n

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS Ithaca and London

A îhŝ éŝévé. Excép fo bîéf quoàîoŝ î à évîéw, hîŝ book, o pàŝ hééof, uŝ o bé époucé î ày fo wîhou péîŝŝîo î wîî f o hé pubîŝhé. Fo îfoàîo, àéŝŝ Coé Uîvéŝîy Péŝŝ, Sàé Houŝé, 512 Eàŝ Sàé Séé, Ihàcà, Néw Yok 14850. Vîŝî ou wébŝîé à coépéŝŝ.coé.éu.

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Lîbày of Coéŝŝ CààoîîPubîcàîo Dàà Nàéŝ: Ràpo, Màhà, àuho. Tîé: Tàffîckî wîh éoŝ : àîc, îuà, à éé f o àé àîquîy o 1000 / Màhà Ràpo. Déŝcîpîo: 1ŝ éîîo. | Ihàcà [Néw Yok] : Coé Uîvéŝîy Péŝŝ, 2021. | Icuéŝ bîbîoàphîcà éféécéŝ à îéx. Iéîfîéŝ: LCCN 2018040254 (pî) | LCCN 2018041264 (ébook) | ISBN 9781501735301 (pf ) | ISBN 9781501735318 (épub/obî) | ISBN 9781501702686 (coh) Subjécŝ: LCSH: Màîc—Euopé—Hîŝoy—To 1500. | Màîc—Réîîouŝàŝpécŝ—Chîŝîàîy—Hîŝoy of ocîéŝ—Eày chuch, cà. 30–600. | Màîc—Réîîouŝ àŝpécŝ—Chîŝîàîy—Hîŝoy of ocîéŝ—Mîé Aéŝ, 600–1500. | Woé î Chîŝîàîy—Euopé— Hîŝoy—Eày chuch, cà. 30–600. | Woé î Chîŝîàîy—Euopé—Hîŝoy—Mîé Aéŝ, 600–1500. Càŝŝîfîcàîo: LCC BF1589 .R36 2019 (pî) | LCC BF1589 (ébook) | DDC 133.4/3094—c23 LC éco àvàîàbé à hpŝ://cc.oc.ov/2018040254 LC ébook éco àvàîàbé à hpŝ://cc.oc.ov/2018041264

Cové îàé: Déàî foThe Fall of cà. 1340–45). MuŝÈé u Louvé.

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