Fearful Spirits, Reasoned Follies : : The Boundaries of Superstition in Late Medieval Europe /

Fearful Spirits, Reasoned Follies : : The Boundaries of Superstition in Late Medieval Europe / / Michael D. Bailey.

Superstitions are commonplace in the modern world. Mostly, however, they evoke innocuous images of people reading their horoscopes or avoiding black cats. Certain religious practices might also come to mind-praying to St. Christopher or lighting candles for the dead. Benign as they might seem today,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Bailey, Michael D.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 2 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Names and Titles
  • Abbreviations
  • Prologue
  • Introduction: The Meanings of Medieval Superstition
  • 1. The Weight of Tradition
  • 2. Superstition in Court and Cloister
  • 3. The Cardinal, the Confessor, and the Chancellor
  • 4. Dilemmas of Discernment
  • 5. Witchcraft and Its Discontents
  • 6. Toward Disenchantment?
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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