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

Gábor Klaniczay ; translated by Susan Singerman ; edited by Karen Margolis

Princeton University Press, c1990

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Selections. 1990

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Essays originally written in English, French, and Hungarian

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-250) and index

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  • 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

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