Witchcraft and magic in the Nordic Middle Ages

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Mitchell, Stephen A.: Witchcraft and magic in the Nordic Middle Ages (2011, University of Pennsylvania Press)

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Publicado el 26 de Diciembre de 2011 por University of Pennsylvania Press.

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978-0-8122-4290-4
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606785111

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Preface

This study examines the responses in the legal, literary, and popular cultures of the Nordic Middle Ages to the belief that there existed people capable of manipulating the world through magical practices. To date, there have been no comprehensive evaluations of Nordic witchcraft beliefs between 1100 and 1525, whereas studies of Scandinavian witchcraft in the eras both before and after this period abound. The reasons for this situation are many. In large part, it is explained by the tendency for many of the late medieval materials, such as the Icelandic sagas, to be appropriated to discussions of the much earlier Viking Age; moreover, there is a view among some specialists that nothing much happened with respect to Scandinavian witchcraft before circa 1400.

I argue, on the contrary, that much was happening and that an evaluation of this important meeting ground of church doctrine and vernacular belief systems in the …

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