Classical Culture and Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

Classical Culture and Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

Montesano, Marina

Springer International Publishing AG

07/2018

278

Dura

Inglês

9783319920771

15 a 20 dias

Marina Montesano examines Greek and Latin literature, revealing how particular features of ancient striges were carried into the Late Middle Ages, through the Renaissance and into the fifteenth century, when early Italian trials recall the myth of the strix common in ancient Latin sources and in popular memory.
Introduction.- Prototypes: Magic and Witchcraft in Greece.- The Witch as a Woman: Tales of Magic in Rome.- Maleficia: From Late Antiquity to the High Middle Ages.- A Company That Go the Course'.- Let's Send Up Some Incense to the Lord!'.- The Italian Quattrocento.- Twelve Thousand Circes'.- Bibliography.- Index
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