Religion, the Supernatural and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion, the Supernatural and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe write by Jennifer Spinks. This book was released on 2015-07-28. Religion, the Supernatural and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume brings together some of the most exciting new scholarship on these themes, and thus pays tribute to the ground-breaking work of Charles Zika. Seventeen interdisciplinary essays offer new insights into the materiality and belief systems of early modern religious cultures as found in artworks, books, fragmentary texts and even in Protestant ‘relics’. Some contributions reassess communal and individual responses to cases of possession, others focus on witchcraft and manifestations of the disordered natural world. Canonical figures and events, from Martin Luther to the Salem witch trials, are looked at afresh. Collectively, these essays demonstrate how cultural and interdisciplinary trends in religious history illuminate the experiences of early modern Europeans. Contributors: Susan Broomhall, Heather Dalton, Dagmar Eichberger, Peter Howard, E. J. Kent, Brian P. Levack, Dolly MacKinnon, Louise Marshall, Donna Merwick, Leigh T.I. Penman, Shelley Perlove, Lyndal Roper, Peter Sherlock, Larry Silver, Patricia Simons, Jennifer Spinks, Hans de Waardt and Alexandra Walsham.
Religion and life cycles in early modern England
Religion and life cycles in early modern England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion and life cycles in early modern England write by Caroline Bowden. This book was released on 2021-10-12. Religion and life cycles in early modern England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Religion and life cycles in early modern England assembles scholars working in the fields of history, English literature and art history to further our understanding of the intersection between religion and the life course in the period c. 1550–1800. Featuring chapters on Catholic, Protestant and Jewish communities, it encourages cross-confessional comparison between life stages and rites of passage that were of religious significance to all faiths in early modern England. The book considers biological processes such as birth and death, aspects of the social life cycle including schooling, coming of age and marriage and understandings of religious transition points such as spiritual awakenings and conversion. Through this inclusive and interdisciplinary approach, it seeks to show that the life cycle was not something fixed or predetermined and that early modern individuals experienced multiple, overlapping life cycles.
The supernatural in early modern Scotland
The supernatural in early modern Scotland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The supernatural in early modern Scotland write by Julian Goodare. This book was released on 2020-12-08. The supernatural in early modern Scotland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is about other worlds and the supernatural beings, from angels to fairies, that inhabited them. It is about divination, prophecy, visions and trances. And it is about the cultural, religious, political and social uses to which people in Scotland put these supernatural themes between 1500 and 1800. The supernatural consistently provided Scots with a way of understanding topics such as the natural environment, physical and emotional wellbeing, political events and visions of past and future. In exploring the early modern supernatural, the book has much to reveal about how men and women in this period thought about, debated and experienced the world around them. Comprising twelve chapters by an international range of scholars, The supernatural in early modern Scotland discusses both popular and elite understandings of the supernatural.
Exorcising our Demons: Magic, Witchcraft and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe
Exorcising our Demons: Magic, Witchcraft and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exorcising our Demons: Magic, Witchcraft and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe write by Charles Zika. This book was released on 2021-10-11. Exorcising our Demons: Magic, Witchcraft and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of sixteen essays deals with the role of magic, religion and witchcraft in European culture, 1450-1650, and the critical role of the visual in that culture. It covers the relationship of humanism and magic; the intersection of religious ritual, orthodoxy and power; the discursive links between the visual language of witchcraft and contemporary anxieties about sexuality and savagery. The introductory chapter urges us to exorcise our tendency to reduce historical experiences of the demonic to forms of unreason created in a distant past. Only then can we understand the role of the demonic in our historical definition of the self and the other. Richly illustrated with 112 images, the book will interest historians and art historians.
The Supernatural in Tudor and Stuart England
The Supernatural in Tudor and Stuart England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Supernatural in Tudor and Stuart England write by Darren Oldridge. This book was released on 2016-03-31. The Supernatural in Tudor and Stuart England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Supernatural in Tudor and Stuart England reflects upon the boundaries between the natural and the otherworldly in early modern England as they were understood by the people of the time. The book places supernatural beliefs and events in the context of the English Reformation to show how early modern people reacted to the world of unseen spirits and magical influences. It sets out the conceptual foundations of early modern encounters with the supernatural, and shows how occult beliefs penetrated almost every aspect of life. Darren Oldridge considers many of the spiritual forces that pervaded early modern England: an immanent God who sometimes expressed Himself through ‘signs and wonders’ and the various lesser inhabitants of the world of spirits including ghosts, goblins, demons and angels. He explores human attempts to comprehend, harness or accommodate these powers through magic and witchcraft, and the role of the supernatural in early modern science. This book presents a concise and accessible up-to-date synthesis of the scholarship of the supernatural in Tudor and Stuart England. It will be essential reading for students of early modern England, religion, witchcraft and the supernatural.
