The uses of supernatural power : the transformation of popular religion in medieval and early-modern Europe
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The uses of supernatural power : the transformation of popular religion in medieval and early-modern Europe
Princeton University Press, c1990
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
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Note
Essays originally written in English, French, and Hungarian
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-250) and index
Contents of Works
- The carnival spirit
- Religious movements and Christian culture
- Fashionable beards and heretic rags
- From sacral kingship to self-representation
- Legends as life-strategies for aspirant saints in the later Middle Ages
- The cult of dynastic saints in central Europe
- Shamanistic elements in central European witchcraft
- Witch-hunting in Hungary
- The decline of witches and the rise of vampires under the eighteenth-century Habsburg monarchy