The appearance of witchcraft : print and visual culture in sixteenth-century Europe / Charles Zika.

  • Zika, Charles.
Date:
[2007], ©2007
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Publication/Creation

London : Routledge, [2007], ©2007.

Physical description

xiv, 296 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 26 cm

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Contents

Fashioning a new visual language for witchcraft -- The transformation of sorcery and magic in the fifteenth century -- Witches' cauldrons and women's bodies -- Wild riders, popular folklore and moral disorder -- Transformation, death and sexuality in the classical world -- A biblical necromancer and two Christian saints -- Reporting the news and reading the signs -- On the margins of Christian Europe.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-289) and index.

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    History of Medicine
    BVD.AA5
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ISBN

  • 9780415563550
  • 0415563550