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  • Spectralities in the Renaissance

    Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

    Traducido por Trista Selous ...
    Series series The Past and Present Book Series
    Spectralities in the Renaissance explores the history of the idea of ghosts in early modern Europe, moving away from thinking of them as a purely religious phenomenon, but as something rooted in cultural traditions, particularly in times of violence, where the living and the dead were in close proximity. Callard focuses on ancien regime France, to explore how the notion of ghosts and the ... Leer más

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  • Le temps des fantômes

    Spectralités d'Ancien Régime XVIe-XVIIe siècle

    Omniprésents au Moyen Âge, les fantômes auraient dû déserter l’Europe à l’avènement de la philosophie mécaniste de Descartes et de Newton. Pourtant, des silhouettes aux contours très anciens continuèrent de peupler les mondes d’Ancien Régime : enfants mort-nés, cadavres sans sépultures, gardiens spectraux de trésors oubliés…Lancée sur les traces de ces apparitions tantôt apaisantes tantôt ... Leer más

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  • Radical Enlightenment

    Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750

    Arguably the most decisive shift in the history of ideas in modern times was the complete demolition during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - in the wake of the Scientific Revolution - of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief by the new philosophy and the philosophes, culminating in Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau. In this revolutionary process which ... Leer más

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  • Werewolves, Witches, and Wandering Spirits

    Traditional Belief and Folklore in Early Modern Europe

    Edición de Kathryn A. Edwards ...
    Series series Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies
    Bringing together scholars from Europe, America, and Australia, this volume explores the more fantastic elements of popular religious belief: ghosts, werewolves, spiritualism, animism, and of course, witchcraft. These traditional religious beliefs and practices are frequently treated as marginal in more synthetic studies of witchcraft and popular religion, yet Protestants and Catholics alike saw ... Leer más

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  • Western Attitudes toward Death

    From the Middle Ages to the Present

    Traducido por Patricia Ranum ...
    Series Libro 3 - The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History
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  • Lourdes

    Body And Spirit in the Secular Age

    de Ruth Harris ...
    Lourdes was at the very centre of nineteenth century debates on religion, science and medicine. Both the Church and secularists championed the 'miracle' town as crucial in shaping how society should think about the mind, body and spirit. Since the ‘visions’ of Bernadette Soubirous in 1858 transformed the quiet Pyrenean town into an international tourist and pilgrimage destination, it has been a ... Leer más

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  • Voltaire

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    The Art of Conversation is a major contribution to the social history of language - a relatively new field which has become the focus of lively interdisciplinary debate in recent years.Drawing on the work of sociolinguists and others, Burke uses their concept while reserving the right to qualify their theories where the historical record makes this seem appropriate. Like the sociolinguists, Burke ... Leer más

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  • Demonic Possession and Exorcism

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    This is a highly original study of demon possession and the ritual of exorcism, both of which were rife in early modern times, and which reached epidemic proportions in France. Catholics at the time believed that the Devil was everywhere present, in the rise of the heretics, in the activities of witches, and even in the bodies of pious young women. The rite of exorcism was intended to heal the ... Leer más

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    Over the course of the Middle Ages, the economies of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa became more closely integrated, fostering the international and intercontinental journeys of merchants, pilgrims, diplomats, missionaries, and adventurers. During a time in history when travel was often difficult, expensive, and fraught with danger, these wayfarers composed accounts of their experiences in ... Leer más

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  • Montaigne

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