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Author Van Gent, Jacqueline

Title Magic, body, and the self in eighteenth-century Sweden / by Jacqueline Van Gent
Published Leiden, NL : Brill, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 228 pages)
Series Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 135
Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 135.
Contents Honour and social control in witchcraft trials -- The fluid self -- Magic and the body -- Healing as counter-magic -- The ambiguity of magic
Summary Contrary to previous assumptions, magic remained an integral part of everyday life in Enlightenment Europe. This book demonstrates that the endurance of magical practices, both benevolent and malevolent, was grounded in early modern perceptions of an interconnected body, self and spiritual cosmos
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Witchcraft -- Sweden -- History -- 18th century
Magic -- Sweden -- History -- 18th century
Trials (Witchcraft) -- Sweden -- History -- 18th century
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Magick Studies.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Witchcraft & Wicca.
Magic
Trials (Witchcraft)
Witchcraft
Magie
Häxor -- rättsfall -- Sverige -- 1700-talet.
Magi.
Social kontroll.
Kropp.
Häxprocesser -- historia -- Sverige -- 1700-talet.
Magi -- historia -- Sverige -- 1700-talet.
Häxeri -- historia -- Sverige -- 1700-taletl.
Sweden
Schweden
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004171145
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9781282400221
9786612400223
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