Description: Classical Culture and Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Italy, Hardcover by Montesano, Marina, ISBN 3319920774, ISBN-13 9783319920771, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This book explores the relationships between ancient witchcraft and its modern incarnation, and by doing so fills an important gap in the historiography. It is often noted that stories of witchcraft circulated in Greek and Latin classical texts, and that treatises dealing with witch-beliefs referenced them. Still, the role of humanistic culture and classical revival in the developing of the witch-hunts has not yet been fully researched. Marina Montesano examines Greek and Latin literature, revealing how particular features of ancient striges were carried into the Late Middle Ages, through the Renaissance and into the fifteenth century, when early Italian trials recall the myth of the strix common in ancient Latin sources and in popular memory. The final chapter also serves as a conclusion, to show how in Renaissance Italy and beyond, classical accounts of witchcraft ceased to be just stories, as they had formerly been, and were instead used to attest to the reality of witches’ powers.
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Book Title: Classical Culture and Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Italy
Number of Pages: IX, 278 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Springer International Publishing A&G
Topic: Witchcraft (See Also Religion / Wicca), Europe / Italy, Social History, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Customs & Traditions, Europe / Medieval
Publication Year: 2018
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit, Social Science, History
Item Weight: 21.9 Oz
Item Length: 8.3 in
Author: Marina Montesano
Item Width: 5.8 in
Book Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic Ser.
Format: Hardcover
