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Christian Discourses of the Holy and the Sacred from the 15th to the 17th Century
The book reconstructs the values, norms, experiences and power structures underlying the understandings of the holy and the sacred in early modern Christian contexts, intending to gain a characteristic profile of the associated concepts, persons, objects, texts, times, spaces and performances.
Legio
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Witchcraft, Demonology and Magic
Witchcraft and magic are topics of enduring interest for many reasons. The main one lies in their extraordinary interdisciplinarity: anthropologists, folklorists, historians, and more have contributed to build a body of work of extreme variety and consistence. Of course, this also means that the subjects themselves are not easy to assess. In a very general way, we can define witchcraft as a supernatural means to cause harm, death, or misfortune, while magic also belongs to the field of supernatural, or at least esoteric knowledge, but can be used to less dangerous effects (e.g., divination and astrology). In Western civilization, however, the witch hunt has set a very peculiar perspective in...
The Oxford Handbook of the Latin Bible
"The Introduction provides an overview of the history of the Latin Bible, with a summary of the contents of each chapter in this Handbook and the rationale for their arrangement. It then discusses the terminology for referring to the Latin Bible, along with a mini-glossary of specialist terms in manuscript and textual studies which appear in the chapters. The principal editions of the Latin Bible are introduced, along with other resources for its study such as book series and databases. Finally, the conventions for the Handbook are explained, such as spelling practices for Latin and proper nouns"--
Medicine and the Inquisition in the Early Modern World
Medicine and the Inquisition offers a wide-ranging and subtle account of the role played by the Roman, Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions in shaping medical learning and practice in the early modern world.
Cultural Shifts and Ritual Transformations in Reformation Europe
An overview of Susan Karant-Nunn’s impact on the social and cultural history of the Reformation in central Europe.
Praying to Portraits
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Spinoza, Life and Legacy
A biography of the boldest and most unsettling of the early modern philosophers, Spinoza, which examines the man's life, relationships, writings, and career, while also forcing us to rethink how we previously understood Spinoza's reception in his own time and in the years following his death. The boldest and most unsettling of the major early modern philosophers, Spinoza, had a much greater, if often concealed, impact on the international intellectual scene and on the early Enlightenment than philosophers, historians, and political theorists have conventionally tended to recognize. Europe-wide efforts to prevent the reading public and university students learning about Spinoza, the man and h...
Tener por cierto
Desde hace algunas décadas, los historiadores de la creencia han insistido en que el concepto moderno de religión es de factura relativamente reciente (siglo XVIII). De allí, la necesidad de considerar la creencia como noción clave para entender los modos de la espiritualidad premoderna. Se trata de una conceptualización que enfatiza las distancias de naturaleza entre el concepto moderno de religión (entendido como adhesión individual a un conjunto de enunciados doctrinarios) y la creencia (concebida como un conjunto concreto de reglas prácticas ligadas a procesos específicos de poder y conocimiento). Pensar la creencia como un creer, es decir, como una acción, una praxis, ha permi...
La reforma protestante desde el margen: A 500 años del evento banal que revolucionó la cultura de Occidente
La imagen de cubierta corresponde al frontispicio de un panfleto redactado por Johannes Cochlaeus: “Las siete cabezas de Martín Lutero”. Editado en latín y alemán en 1529, en Leipzig, Sieben Kopffe Martini Luthers o Luther septiceps intentaba contrarrestar las consecuencias de la polémica iniciada por Lutero en 1517. Una Reforma que comportaría la destrucción de un mundo. Este monstruo, que sugería asociar a Lutero con la bestia del apocalipsis, resume cómica y severamente el conjunto de objetivos que aborda este libro: entrever las raíces del movimiento reformado como reacción a una teología escolástica, a una eclesiología gregoriana y a prácticas monacales, evangélicas y...
