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Cover 1 The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic 4 Copyright 5 EDITOR’S FOREWORD 6 CONTENTS 10 LIST OF COLOUR PLATES 12 LIST OF TABLES 14 Colour Plates 16 1. Magic in the Ancient World 24 Mesopotamia 24 Egypt 28 Jewish magic 35 Greeks 41 Romans 45 2. Medieval Magic 52 From Arabic into Latin: translating activity and learned magic 55 Natural magic 59 Image magic 60 Angel magic 67 Demonic magic 72 Heresy, sorcery, and witchcraft 78 The defence of magic 85 3. The Demonologists 88 The development of the demonological system 94 Some demonological issues 105 Demonology in decline 111 4. The Witch Trials 120 Witch trials: the causes of prosecutions 123 Witchcraft: the law and the impact of torture 131 What the sources tell us 140 The witch in the records 145 The spread of the trials: the inuence of reportage 149 The end of the witch trials? 154 5. The Witch and Magician in European Art 157 The new visual imagery of witchcraft, 1490–1590 157 Witchcraft as religious and social threat, 1590–1640 166 Witchcraft and imaginative fantasy, 1620–1670 175 The defence of witchcraft against scepticism, 1670–1710 182 The parodying of witchcraft and early Romanticism: 1710–1800 185 6. Th
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Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Owen Davies;
- Language
- EN
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Religion
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5 (166 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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