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Thinking with Demons
This is a work of fundamental importance for our understanding of the intellectual and cultural history of early modern Europe. Stuart Clark offers a new interpretation of the witchcraft beliefs of European intellectuals based on their publications in the field of demonology, and shows how these beliefs fitted rationally with many other views current in Europe between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. Professor Clark is the first to explore the appeal of demonology to early modern intellectuals by looking at the books they published on the subject during this period. After examining the linguistic foundations of their writings, the author shows how the writers' ideas about witchcraft (and about magic) complemented their other intellectual commitments--in particular, their conceptions of nature, history, religion, and politics. The result is much more than a history of demonology. It is a survey of wider intellectual and ideological purposes, and underlines just how far the nature of rationality is dependent on its historical context.
A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission
The Jewish culture of the Hellenistic and early Roman periods established a basis for all monotheistic religions, but its main sources have been preserved to a great degree through Christian transmission. This Guide is devoted to problems of preservation, reception, and transformation of Jewish texts and traditions of the Second Temple period in the many Christian milieus from the ancient world to the late medieval era. It approaches this corpus not as an artificial collection of reconstructed texts--a body of hypothetical originals--but rather from the perspective of the preserved materials, examined in their religious, social, and political contexts. It also considers the other, non-Christian, channels of the survival of early Jewish materials, including Rabbinic, Gnostic, Manichaean, and Islamic. This unique project brings together scholars from many different fields in order to map the trajectories of early Jewish texts and traditions among diverse later cultures. It also provides a comprehensive and comparative introduction to this new field of study while bridging the gap between scholars of early Judaism and of medieval Christianity.
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Die Bibliothek der Abtei St. Walburg zu Eichstätt
In einem langen Kapitel seiner Regel beleuchtet Benedikt von Nursia das Verhaltnis von Arbeit (labor) und geistlicher Lesung (lectio divina) (Kap. 48). Demnach gehort zur Grundung eines Klosters nach der Regel Benedikts als wesentlicher Bestandteil eine Bibliothek. Sie stellt die liturgischen Bucher bereit und dient der geistlichen Erbauung der Gemeinschaft und des einzelnen. Wenn sich in der Benediktinerinnenabtei St. Walburg ein Bucherschatz uber Jahrhunderte erhalten hat, so ist dies primar der Ehrfurcht vor den geschaffenen Dingen im allgemeinen und vor dem Buch im besonderen zu verdanken sowie der Sparsamkeit, die vom Armutsideal nahegelegt wird. Inhaltlich wird die monastische Lesekult...
