Exorcising Our Demons: Magic, Witchcraft, and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe (Studies in Medieval & Reformation Thought, Volume 91) [Signed]

Zika, Charles

ISBN 10: 9004125604 / ISBN 13: 9789004125605

Published by Brill, Leiden, 2003

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Magic, Witchcraft, and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe. Studies in Medieval & Reformation Thought, Volume 91. This copy is SIGNED & INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink on ffep (full page inscription). Illustrated in b&w. With comprehensive footnotes. figures & tables. Includes indexes. Very slight handling wear, former owner's ink notation to front pastedown, otherwise a nice clean tight copy. xxi + 603pp. Heavy hardcover volume, extra shipping may be required. Uncommon title.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Exorcising Our Demons: Magic, Witchcraft, and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe (Studies in Medieval & Reformation Thought, Volume 91) [Signed]
• Publisher: Brill, Leiden
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004125604
• ISBN 13: 9789004125605
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

This collection of sixteen essays deals with the role of magic, religion and witchcraft in European culture, 1450-1650, and the critical role of the visual in that culture. It covers the relationship of humanism and magic; the intersection of religious ritual, orthodoxy and power; the discursive links between the visual language of witchcraft and contemporary anxieties about sexuality and savagery.
The introductory chapter urges us to exorcise our tendency to reduce historical experiences of the demonic to forms of unreason created in a distant past. Only then can we understand the role of the demonic in our historical definition of the self and the other. Richly illustrated with 112 images, the book will interest historians and art historians.

About the Author

Charles Zika is Associate Professor of History at the University of Melbourne. He has published widely on magic, religion, witchcraft and visual culture in the sixteenth century, which includes Johannes Reuchlin und die okkulte Tradition der Renaissance (Thorbecke, 1998) and edited Dürer and his culture (Cambridge, 1998).