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Knowing Demons, Knowing Spirits in the Early Modern Period

Knowing Demons, Knowing Spirits in the Early Modern Period

Brock, Michelle D.
Raiswell, Richard
Winter, David R.

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 3319757377
ISBN13: 9783319757377
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Aug 11 2018
Pages: 317
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This book explores the manifold ways of knowing-and knowing about- preternatural beings such as demons, angels, fairies, and other spirits that inhabited and were believed to act in early modern European worlds. Its contributors examine how people across the social spectrum assayed the various types of spiritual entities that they believed dwelled invisibly but meaningfully in the spaces just beyond (and occasionally within) the limits of human perception. Collectively, the volume demonstrates that an awareness and understanding of the nature and capabilities of spirits-whether benevolent or malevolent-was fundamental to the knowledge-making practices that characterize the years between ca. 1500 and 1750. This is, therefore, a book about how epistemological and experiential knowledge of spirits persisted and evolved in concert with the wider intellectual changes of the early modern period, such as the Protestant Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment.

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