Performing Magic in the Pre-Modern North Practice and Transgressions /
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| Summary: | XVII, 294 p. 23 illus. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2024.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024. |
| Series: | Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61205-3 |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Laws as Sources for Performing Magic in the Pre-modern North - Gwendolyne Knight
- 2. Material Manifestations – Archaeological Approaches to Magical Practices - Hanna Jansson
- 3. Finnvitka: Saami Magic, Embodied Others and Ambiguity - Solveig Marie Wang
- 4. The Old Norse Materia Medica: Between Liturgy and Magic - Luthien Cangemi
- 5. Curses in Old Norse Saga Literature - Fiorelle Di Fonte
- 6. Strange Brews: Drink and ‘Magic’ in Medieval Norse Literature - Ann Sheffield
- 7. Performing Weather Magic in the Medieval North - Jennifer Hemphill
- 8. In the Name of Satan: Magical Practice in the Late Danish Witchcraft Trials - Maria Østerby Elleby
- 9. ‘The Devil’s Sacraments’: Physical Evidence of Danish Magical Practice during the Witch Trials (1550-1660) - Louise Hauberg Lindgaard
- 10. Of Crones and Fjo̧lkynngi: Transgressing the Norms in the Íslendingasögur - Gaia Perreaut
- 11. Bury Your Gays: Queer readings of Viking Age Material Culture - Nate Richardson-Read
- 12. ‘I don’t want realism – I want magic!’: Fantasy as Resistance in Later Medieval Íslendingasögur - Basil Arnould Price.