Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages / / Stephen A. Mitchell.
Stephen A. Mitchell here offers the fullest examination available of witchcraft in late medieval Scandinavia. He focuses on those people believed to be able-and who in some instances thought themselves able-to manipulate the world around them through magical practices, and on the responses to these...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 p.) :; 12 illus |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Witchcraft and the Past
- Chapter 2. Magic and Witchcraft in Daily Life
- Chapter 3. Narrating Magic, Sorcery, and Witchcraft
- Chapter 4. Medieval Mythologies
- Chapter 5. Witchcraft, Magic, and the Law
- Chapter 6. Witchcraft, Sorcery, and Gender
- Epilogue: The Medieval Legacy
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Acknowledgments