
Enchanted Europe
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART I. DISCERNING AND CONTROLLING INVISIBLE FORCES: THE IMAGE OF 'SUPERSTITION' IN THE LITERATURE
- 1. The Problems of Pre-modern Life
- 2. A Densely Populated Universe
- 3. Helpful Performances: The Uses of Ritual
- 4. Insight and Foresight: Techniques of Divination
- PART II. THE LEARNED RESPONSE TO SUPERSTITIONS IN THE MIDDLE AGES: ANGELS AND DEMONS
- 5. The Patristic and Early Medieval Heritage
- 6. Scholastic Demonology in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
- 7. The Demonological Reading of Superstitions in the Late Middle Ages: Areas of Consensus
- 8. The Demonological Reading of Superstitions in the Late Middle Ages: Areas of Difference and Disagreement
- 9. The Pastoral Use of the Scholastic Critique of Superstitions
- PART III. SUPERSTITIONS IN CONTROVERSY: RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATIONS
- 10. Some Renaissance Christian Humanists and 'Superstition'
- 11. Magic, the Fallen World, and Fallen Humanity: Martin Luther on the Devil and Superstitions
- 12. Prodigies, Providences, and Possession: The Sixteenth-Century Protestant Context
- 13. The Protestant Critique of Consecrations: Catholicism as Superstition
- 14. The Reformed Doctrine of Providence and the Transformation of the Devil
- 15. Reformed Catholicism: Purifying Sources, Defending Traditions
- PART IV. THE COSMOS CHANGES SHAPE: SUPERSTITION IS REDEFINED
- 16. Demonology Becomes an Open Subject in the Seventeenth Century
- 17. Defending the 'Invisible World': The Campaign against 'Saducism'
- 18. Towards the Enlightenment
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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