Stephen A. Mitchell here offers the fullest examination available of witchcraft in late medieval Scandinavia. He focuses on those people believed to be able and who in some instances thought themselves able to manipulate the world around them through magical practices, and on the responses to these beliefs in the legal, literary, and popular cultures of the Nordic Middle Ages. His sources range from the Icelandic sagas to cultural monuments much less familiar to the nonspecialist, including legal cases, church art, law codes, ecclesiastical records, and runic spells.
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Stephen A. Mitchell here offers the fullest examination available of witchcraft in late medieval Scandinavia. He focuses on those people believed t...
The Essentials of Teaching Physical Education, Second Edition, offers what every future physical educator wants: the opportunity to hit the ground running on day one of their career, ready to deliver an effective program.
In this new edition, future K-12 physical educators will find an accessible and effective approach to delivering vital content to students. The book takes a standards-based approach that is fully integrated with SHAPE America assessments, and its teaching for learning approach to curriculum development takes the guesswork out of translating the...
The Essentials of Teaching Physical Education, Second Edition, offers what every future physical educator wants: the opportunity to hit the gro...
Freudem vytvořené pojmy se staly součástí našeho psychologického slovníku: nevědomé myšlenky a pocity, konflikty, význam snů, senzualita dětství. Za posledních padesát let se však psychoanalytické myšlení masivně rozšířilo a prodělalo zásadní změny. Kniha Stephena A. Mitchella a Margaret J. Blackové Freud a po Freudovi nám předkládá psychoanalytické myšlení a práce, které byly napsány po Freudovi. Díky velkému množství kazuistik obsažených v této svěžím jazykem a bez odborného žargonu napsané knize nám jsou moderní...
Freudem vytvořené pojmy se staly součástí našeho psychologického slovníku: nevědomé myšlenky a pocity, konflikty, význam snů, senzualita ...
The medieval northern world consisted of a vast and culturally diverse region both geographically, from roughly Greenland to Novgorod and culturally, as one of the last areas of Europe to be converted to Christianity. Old Norse Folklore explores the complexities of thisfascinating world in case studies and theoretical essays that connect orality and performance theory to memory studies, and myths relating to pre-Christian Nordic religion to innovations within late medieval pilgrimage song culture. Old Norse Folklore provides critical new perspectives on the Old Norse world, some of which...
The medieval northern world consisted of a vast and culturally diverse region both geographically, from roughly Greenland to Novgorod and culturally, ...
