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  • Trafficking with Demons

    Magic, Ritual, and Gender from Late Antiquity to 1000

    Trafficking with Demons explores how magic was perceived, practiced, and prohibited in western Europe during the first millennium CE. Through the overlapping frameworks of religion, ritual, and gender, Martha Rampton connects early Christian reckonings with pagan magic to later doctrines and dogmas. Challenging established views on the role of women in ritual magic during this period, Rampton ... Read more

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  • European Magic and Witchcraft

    A Reader

    Edited by Martha Rampton ...
    Series series Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures
    Magic, witches, and demons have drawn interest and fear throughout human history. In this comprehensive primary source reader, Martha Rampton traces the history of our fascination with magic and witchcraft from the first through to the seventeenth century. In over 80 readings presented chronologically, Rampton demonstrates how understandings of and reactions toward magic changed and developed over ... Read more

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    Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity

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