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<p>Selected by <i>Choice</i> magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 2000</p> <p>The roots of European witchcraft and magic lie in Hebrew and other ancient Near Eastern cultures and in the Celtic, Nordic, and Germanic traditions of the Continent. For two millennia, European folklore and ritual have been imbued with the belief in the supernatural, yielding a rich trove of histories and images.</p> <p>The six volumes in the series Witchcraft and Magic in Europe combine traditional approaches of political, legal, and social historians with critical syntheses of cultural anthropology, historical psychology, and gender studies. The series provides a modern, scholarly survey of the supernatural beliefs of Europeans from ancient times to the present day. Each volume contains the work of distinguished scholars chosen for their expertise in a particular era or region.</p> <p>The chronological scope of this volume ranges from the heroic age of Homer's Greek East to the time of the rise of Christianity, a period of well over a thousand years. In this long millennium the political and cultural landscapes of the Mediterranean basin underwent significant changes, as competing creeds and den

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Author

Ankarloo, Bengt & Stuart Clark Eds.

Publisher

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812217056

Category

history

Subjects

Psychology, Fiction, Religion

Rating

4.34 / 5 (34 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14