The uses of supernatural power : the transformation of popular religion in medieval and early-modern Europe / Gábor Klaniczay ; translated by Susan Singerman ; edited by Karen Margolis.
1990
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Title
The uses of supernatural power : the transformation of popular religion in medieval and early-modern Europe / Gábor Klaniczay ; translated by Susan Singerman ; edited by Karen Margolis.
Uniform title
Works. Selections. English. 1990
Created/published
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1990.
Description
viii, 259 p. ; 24 cm
Associated name
Note
Essays originally written in English, French, and Hungarian.
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-250) and index.
Contents
The carnival spirit
Religious movements and Christian culture
Fashionable beards and heretic rags
From sacral kingship to self-representation
Legends as life-strategies for aspirant saints in the later Middle Ages
The cult of dynastic saints in central Europe
Shamanistic elements in central European witchcraft
Witch-hunting in Hungary
The decline of witches and the rise of vampires under the eighteenth-century Habsburg monarchy.
Religious movements and Christian culture
Fashionable beards and heretic rags
From sacral kingship to self-representation
Legends as life-strategies for aspirant saints in the later Middle Ages
The cult of dynastic saints in central Europe
Shamanistic elements in central European witchcraft
Witch-hunting in Hungary
The decline of witches and the rise of vampires under the eighteenth-century Habsburg monarchy.
Call number
BR738.4 .K5