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Four Centuries of Witch Beliefs (Rle Witchcraft): With Special Reference to the Great Rebellion
ISBN: 9780415604192 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1947, it is the essential purpose of this book to investigate attitudes of leading Elizabethan and Stuart statesmen, ask whether witchcraft was of any importance in seventeenth-century English history, or even influenced the Great Rebellion. The reader is placed in possession of the more pertinent passages from the arguments used to support or discredit belief in witchcraft. Originally published in 1947, it is the essential purpose of this book to investigate attitudes of leading Elizabethan and Stuart statesmen, ask wh... |
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747,78 zł |
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Envisioning Magic: A Princeton Seminar and Symposium
ISBN: 9789004107779 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of twelve articles presents a selection of papers delivered in the course of a seminar 1994-95 and its concluding international symposium at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. The common theme is the interrelation between magic and religion, focussing particularly on the Mediterranean world in Antiquity - Egyptian, Graeco-Roman and Jewish beliefs and customs - but also treating the early modern period in Northern Europe (the Netherlands and Germany) as well as offering more general reflections on elements of magic in language and Jewish mysticism. The volume is...
This collection of twelve articles presents a selection of papers delivered in the course of a seminar 1994-95 and its concluding international sympos...
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762,84 zł |
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Investigations Into Magic, an Edition and Translation of Martín del Río's Disquisitionum Magicarum Libri Sex: Volume 6
ISBN: 9789004441590 / Angielski / Twarda / 612 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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762,84 zł |
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John Stearne's Confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft: Text, Context and Afterlife
ISBN: 9780367894047 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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773,57 zł |
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Perspectives on African Witchcraft
ISBN: 9781138217560 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume draws on a range of ethnographic and historical material to provide insight into witchcraft in sub-Saharan Africa. The chapters explore a variety of cultural contexts, with contributions focusing on Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ghana, Mali, Ethiopia and Eritrean diaspora. The book considers the concept of witchcraft itself, the interrelations with religion and medicine, and the theoretical frameworks employed to explain the nature of modern African witchcraft representations. This volume draws on a range of ethnographic and historical material to provide insight into witchcraft in sub-Saharan Africa. The chapters explore... |
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773,57 zł |
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Magical Consciousness: An Anthropological and Neurobiological Approach
ISBN: 9781138850361 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How does a mind think magically? The research documented in this book is one answer that allows the disciplines of anthropology and neurobiology to come together to reveal a largely hidden dynamic of magic. Magic gets to the very heart of some theoretical and methodological difficulties encountered in the social and natural sciences, especially to do with issues of rationality. This book examines magic head-on, not through its instrumental aspects but as an orientation of consciousness. Magical consciousness is affective, associative and synchronistic, shaped through individual experience... How does a mind think magically? The research documented in this book is one answer that allows the disciplines of anthropology and neurobiology to... |
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773,57 zł |
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Ancient Jewish Magic: A History
ISBN: 9780521874571 / Angielski / Twarda / 494 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gideon Bohak gives a pioneering account of the broad history of ancient Jewish magic, from the Second Temple to the rabbinic period. It is based both on ancient magicians' own compositions and products in Aramaic, Hebrew and Greek, and on the descriptions and prescriptions of non-magicians, to reconstruct a historical picture that is as balanced and nuanced as possible. The main focus is on the cultural make-up of ancient Jewish magic, and special attention is paid to the processes of cross-cultural contacts and borrowings between Jews and non-Jews, as well as to inner-Jewish creativity....
Gideon Bohak gives a pioneering account of the broad history of ancient Jewish magic, from the Second Temple to the rabbinic period. It is based both ...
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792,12 zł |
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Gender and Witchcraft: New Perspectives on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology
ISBN: 9780815336730 / Angielski / Twarda / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gathering together literature on witchcraft-related issues published between 1990 and 2000, this six-volume set focuses on issues such as gender, government and law, the culture of religion and the occult. Using approaches from several disciplines, including anthropology and sociology, this source provides a sweeping overview of the occult.
Gathering together literature on witchcraft-related issues published between 1990 and 2000, this six-volume set focuses on issues such as gender, gove...
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799,34 zł |
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Investigations Into Magic, an Edition and Translation of Martín del Río's Disquisitionum Magicarum Libri Sex: Volume 4
ISBN: 9789004441576 / Angielski / Twarda / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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806,43 zł |
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Fictional Practice: Magic, Narration, and the Power of Imagination
ISBN: 9789004465992 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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810,79 zł |
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Ancient Magic and Ritual Power
ISBN: 9789004104068 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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815,15 zł |
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The Alphabet of Nature: By F.M. Van Helmont
ISBN: 9789004152304 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. F. M van Helmont's Alphabet of Nature was one of many books published about language in the early modern period. The "language debate," as it has come to be called, was a topic of compelling interest to major figures such as Reuchlin, Rabelais, Paracelsus, Agrippa, Postel, Boehme, Kircher, Hobbes, Descartes, Comenius, Spinoza, Locke, Boyle, Newton, and Leibniz. At issue were profound questions about whether language is natural or artificial, ordained by God or created by man. The answers given entailed a web of consequences that could lead to arrest, imprisonment, even execution. It is...
F. M van Helmont's Alphabet of Nature was one of many books published about language in the early modern period. The "language debate," as it h...
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841,30 zł |
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Investigations Into Magic, an Edition and Translation of Martín del Río's Disquisitionum Magicarum Libri Sex: Volume 5
ISBN: 9789004441583 / Angielski / Twarda / 784 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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850,02 zł |
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Guide to Magic, Sorcery & Witchcraft: The Romance of Sorcery
ISBN: 9780710307347 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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876,71 zł |
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Athlone History of Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: v.3: Witchcraft and Magic in the Middle Ages
ISBN: 9780485890037 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This series looks at the history of witchcraft and magic in Europe from the earliest times to the present day. This volume looks at the Middle Ages.
This series looks at the history of witchcraft and magic in Europe from the earliest times to the present day. This volume looks at the Middle Ages.
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876,71 zł |
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Athlone History of Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: v.1: Biblical and Pagan Societies
ISBN: 9780485890013 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The oldest roots of the European concepts of witchcraft and magic lie in the Hebrew and other cultures of the ancient Near East and in the Celtic, Nordic and Germanic Societies of the North and West. The authors of this volume survey three crucial aspects of this earliest phase of development. These are the role of magical incantations and rituals against witchcraft in Mesopotamia in the last three millennia BC, the attitudes to witchcraft and magic in the Old Testament and in later Jewish tradition, and the beliefs and legends associated with trolldomor (witchcraft) in pre-Christian...
The oldest roots of the European concepts of witchcraft and magic lie in the Hebrew and other cultures of the ancient Near East and in the Celtic, Nor...
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876,71 zł |
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Investigations Into Magic, an Edition and Translation of Martín del Río's Disquisitionum Magicarum Libri Sex: Volume 2
ISBN: 9789004441552 / Angielski / Twarda / 872 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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893,61 zł |
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Divine Origin of Craft of Herbal
ISBN: 9780710307309 / Angielski / Twarda / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traces the history of herbs far back into antiquity and shows that the gods themselves were believed to be the original healers, not only by revealing the knowledge of their healing properties of mankind but by creating the sustaining herbs out of their own bodies. This book deals with the old gods as herbalists and their divine medicine.
Traces the history of herbs far back into antiquity and shows that the gods themselves were believed to be the original healers, not only by revealing...
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902,49 zł |
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The Secret Tradition in Alchemy: Its Development and Records
ISBN: 9780415638258 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A complete history of alchemy revealing the subject as much more than the attempts in early science of turning base metals into gold or silver, this book goes about intimating the mystical experience underlying hermetic symbolism. It outlines some of the 'secret' inner meanings to alchemy - symbolism, metaphysics, and spirituality. This book contains a universe of information and is worthwhile reading for anyone wanting to know more on this engaging subject. Originally published in 1926. A complete history of alchemy revealing the subject as much more than the attempts in early science of turning base metals into gold or silver, thi... |
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902,49 zł |
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The European Witch-Hunt
ISBN: 9780415254526 / Angielski / Twarda / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The European Witch-Hunt seeks to explain why thousands of people, mostly lower-class women, were deliberately tortured and killed in the name of religion and morality during three centuries of intermittent witch-hunting throughout Europe and North America. Combining perspectives from history, sociology, psychology and other disciplines, this book provides a comprehensive account of witch-hunting in early modern Europe. Julian Goodare sets out an original interpretation of witch-hunting as an episode of ideologically-driven persecution by the godly state in the era of the Reformation and... The European Witch-Hunt seeks to explain why thousands of people, mostly lower-class women, were deliberately tortured and killed in the name of re... |
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902,49 zł |