Classical culture and witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Italy / Marina Montesano.
This book explores the relationships between ancient witchcraft and its modern incarnation, and by doing so fills an important gap in the historiography. It is often noted that stories of witchcraft circulated in Greek and Latin classical texts, and that treatises dealing with witch-beliefs referenc...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
2018.
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| Series: | Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction; Prototypes: Magic and Witchcraft in Greece; Circe: A Dread Goddess of Human Speech; Medea, the Barbarian Sorcerer; Words of Magic; Women on Trial; Scary Monsters; The Witch as a Woman: Tales of Magic in Rome; Canidia, Erichtho, Meroe and the Others; Poisons or Medicines?; Laws and Trials; The Wise Women; The Wicked Shapeshifters; Maleficia: From Late Antiquity to the High Middle Ages; Christian Laws; The Bible and Its Latin Translations; Augustine and The Golden Ass; Isidore, the Strix and the Striga; Barbaric Laws.
- The Pagan Course'A Company That Go the Course'; A Classical Revival: Magic and Mirabilia in Rome; Written and Oral Lore; Preaching and Circulating the News; Dames and Estries; Magic in the City; 'Let's Send Up Some Incense to the Lord!'; A Renaissance for the Church; The Barlotto; Idolaters; ' ... de' fatti de le streghe'; Finicella and Santuccia; The Italian Quattrocento; Stregatum in Benevento; 'Vampires'; From Sorcery to Witchcraft; Poets to Admire or to Believe?; The Humanist and the Lamia; 'Twelve Thousand Circes'; The Renaissance Dialogue.
- 'Old Women Who Had Not Read Plutarch or Herodotus'Painters and Poets; Bibliography; Index.