Witchcraft in Romania
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Witchcraft in Romania
(Palgrave historical studies in witchcraft and magic)
Palgrave Macmillan, c2023
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  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
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book provides a history of witchcraft in the territories that compose contemporary Romania, with a focus on the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. The first part presents aspects of earthly justice, religious and secular, analysing the codes of law, trials and verdicts, and underlining the differences between Transylvania on one hand, and Moldavia and Wallachia on the other. The second part is concerned with divine justice, describing apocalyptic texts that talk about the pains of witches in hell, but also the ensembles of religious painting where, in vast compositions of the Last Judgment, various punishments for the sin of witchcraft are imagined.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Who Are the Romanians and How to Study Witchcraft in Romania?Part I: Trials in Earthly Life
Chapter 2: Witchcraft Acts: Condemnation of Sorcery in the Codes of LawChapter 3: Trials, Persecutions, Executions (the Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries) Chapter 4: New Elites, New Paradigms of Rationality (Eighteenth-Nineteenth Centuries): Against the Superstitions of the Romanians Part II: Trials in the Afterlife Chapter 5: Canonical Versus Apocryphal: Religious Texts Condemning Witchcraft Chapter 6: Doomsday and Hellfire: Iconographic Representations of Witchcraft in Last Judgment Compositions Chapter 7: Conclusions
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