Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West
From Antiquity to the Present
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23499918 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David J Collins |
| Editors | S J David J Collins |
| Year | 2015 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cho9781139043021 |
| ISBN | 9781139043021 |
| Open Library | OL34555876M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 517 |
This book presents twenty chapters by experts in their fields, providing a thorough and interdisciplinary overview of the theory and practice of magic in the West. Its chronological scope extends from the Ancient Near East to twenty-first-century North America; its objects of analysis range from Persian curse tablets to US neo-paganism. For comparative purposes, the volume includes chapters on developments in the Jewish and Muslim worlds, evaluated not simply for what they contributed at various points to European notions of magic, but also as models of alternative development in ancient Mediterranean legacy. Similarly, the volume highlights the transformative and challenging encounters of Europeans with non-Europeans, regarding the practice of magic in both early modern colonization and more recent decolonization.
ancient · History · Magic · Witchcraft
Religion and Magic through Feminist Lenses
The Importance of Aquatic Fauna on Ancient Mesopotamian Healing Practices—An Environmental Humanities Approach to Human Dependency of Non-Human World
Reflections on Christian Magic
Bahá’u’lláh’s “Long Healing Prayer” (“Lawḥ-i-Anta’l-Káfí”) in Light of a Metaphysics of Unity
Athanasius Kircher’s Cabala Saracenica
Magic and the Postsecular
The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation: Including the Demotic Spells
Envisioning Magic
Religion and Healing in America
The Royal libraries of Nineveh
Witchcraft and war
Entrusting the witches to Ḫumuṭ-tabal
The Chicago Maqlû fragment (A 7876)
Sefer Shimmush Tehillim - Buch vom magischen Gebrauch der Psalmen
Sefer ha-Razim I und II - Das Buch der Geheimnisse I und II
Moses, the Sword, and The Sword of Moses
'Wicked Arts'
Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism
Secrecy in the Greek Magical Papyri
The Tombs of the Pyramid Builders — The Tomb of the Artisan Petety and His Curse
The Impact of the Persian Wars on Classical Greece
The Moral Economy of Brujería under the Modern Colony
Panhellenism and the Barbarian in Archaic and Classical Greece
Shamanism and the Eighteenth Century
Devil's Dominion
The Superstitious Mind
Man As Witch
Voodoo and Politics in Haiti
The Witches of Lorraine
John Dee's Conversations with Angels
Sinners on Trial
Magical Imagination
Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe
Spiritualities of Life
Witching Culture
Modern Inquisitions
The Idea of Africa
Masculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France
Ancient Mesopotamia
The Rise of Magic in Early Medieval Europe
Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart England
The Triumph of the Moon
Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine
The Place of Enchantment
Making Magic
Apparitions in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain
The New Metaphysicals
The Millennial Kingdom of the Franciscans in the New World
Public religions in the modern world
The Indian Christ, the Indian King
The re-enchantment of the world
Catching a Thief
Die hippokratische Schrift über die heilige Krankheit
Culture and Religion in Merovingian Gaul, A.D. 481-751
The Image of Maimonides in Nineteenth-Century Jewish Historiography
Witch Craze?
The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran
Sorcery in Early Renaissance Florence
Magic, Body and the Self in Eighteenth-Century Sweden
The Rosicrucian Enlightenment
Johannes Hartlieb
Philosophy in southern France
The Qur'ân's Self-Image
Handbuch der altägyptischen Medizin (2 vols.)
The Carolingians and the Written Word
Theodicy in Islamic Thought
Witches, Saints, and Heretics
The Catholic Priesthood and the English Reformation
Palgrave Advances in Witchcraft Historiography
Local Religion in Sixteenth-Century Spain
The Wiles of Creation
Magic and Modernity
Honor, Politics, and the Law in Imperial Germany, 1871–1914
Defining the Sortes Sanctorum
Magic, Women, and Heresy in the Late Empire
In the Vicinity of the Righteous
The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy
Witchcraft and Masculinities in Early Modern Europe
Against syncretism
Magical Treasure Hunting in Europe and North America
Roman Barbarians
Culture Wars
Beyond the Yates Paradigm
Medieval Ritual Magic in the Renaissance
The Medieval Lapidary of Techel/Azareus on Engraved Stones and Its Jewish Appropriations
Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143-1180
Arabic-English Dictionary of Qurʾanic Usage
Witchcraft and Colonial Rule in Kenya, 1900-1955
Magic
The Reign of Henry VIII
Magika hiera
Pagan monotheism in late antiquity
Society of the dead
Magic and Ritual in the Ancient World
Al-Ġazālī's Concept of Prophecy
The Graeco-Babyloniaca Once Again
Die Labartu-Texte. Babylonische Beschwörungsformeln nebst Zauberverfahren gegen die Dämonin Labartu
Liebesbeschwörungen aus Isin
Ein akkadischer Liebeszauber aus Ḫattuša
Akkadian Evil Eye Incantations from Assur
The Royal Society and the decline of magic
Paganism in the Greek World at the End of Antiquity
Invented Culture/Invented Religion
Avenging the Blood of Children
Magic in Roman Civil Discourse
Spiritual Capital
| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |