News and Rumor in Renaissance Europe. The Fugger Newsletters. Edited, with an Introduction, by George T. Matthews
Author: George Tennyson MATTHEWS
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Published: 1959
Total Pages: 253
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Author: George Tennyson MATTHEWS
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Published: 1959
Total Pages: 253
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: G.T. Matthews
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Published: 1959
Total Pages: 253
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Walter Stephens
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2003-08-15
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780226772622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn September 20, 1587, Walpurga Hausmännin of Dillingen in southern Germany was burned at the stake as a witch. Although she had confessed to committing a long list of maleficia (deeds of harmful magic), including killing forty—one infants and two mothers in labor, her evil career allegedly began with just one heinous act—sex with a demon. Fornication with demons was a major theme of her trial record, which detailed an almost continuous orgy of sexual excess with her diabolical paramour Federlin "in many divers places, . . . even in the street by night." As Walter Stephens demonstrates in Demon Lovers, it was not Hausmännin or other so-called witches who were obsessive about sex with demons—instead, a number of devout Christians, including trained theologians, displayed an uncanny preoccupation with the topic during the centuries of the "witch craze." Why? To find out, Stephens conducts a detailed investigation of the first and most influential treatises on witchcraft (written between 1430 and 1530), including the infamous Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches). Far from being credulous fools or mindless misogynists, early writers on witchcraft emerge in Stephens's account as rational but reluctant skeptics, trying desperately to resolve contradictions in Christian thought on God, spirits, and sacraments that had bedeviled theologians for centuries. Proof of the physical existence of demons—for instance, through evidence of their intercourse with mortal witches—would provide strong evidence for the reality of the supernatural, the truth of the Bible, and the existence of God. Early modern witchcraft theory reflected a crisis of belief—a crisis that continues to be expressed today in popular debates over angels, Satanic ritual child abuse, and alien abduction.
Author: Geraldo U. De Sousa
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-01-13
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 0230286658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this highly entertaining study, De Sousa argues that Shakespeare reinterprets, refashions and reinscribes his alien characters - Jews, Moors, Amazons and gypsies. In this way, the dramatist questions the narrowness of a European perspective which caricatures other societies and views them with suspicion. De Sousa examines how Shakespeare defines other cultures in terms of the interplay of gender, text and habitat. Written in a provocative style, this readable book provides a wealth of fascinating information both on contemporary stage productions and on race and gender relations in early modern Europe.
Author: E. Olsen
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2002-11-19
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 0230597149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1598 a man - branded the Calabrian Charlatan by his Spanish opponents - appeared in Venice claiming to be King Sebastian, the Portuguese monarch who disappeared in battle some twenty years before. Over the next five years Venetians, Spaniards, and Portuguese wrangled over the true character and identity of the man. Was he a lunatic? Was he an impostor? Was he a messianic king? Eric Olsen uses this strange event to explore Portuguese millenarianism and how a group of Portuguese rebels sought to exploit it to free their nation from Spain.
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Published: 1959
Total Pages: 630
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn international quarterly devoted to intellectual history.
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 2768
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 1362
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Published: 1960
Total Pages: 896
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (July - December)