Contesting Orthodoxy in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Heresy, Magic and Witchcraft

by Raisa Maria Toivo and Louise Nyholm Kallestrup

Book Overview

This book breaks with three common scholarly barriers of periodization, discipline and geography in its exploration of the related themes of heresy, magic and witchcraft. It sets aside constructed chronological boundaries, and in doing so aims to achieve a clearer picture of what 'went before', as well as what 'came after'. Thus the volume demonstrates continuity as well as change in the concepts and understandings of magic, heresy and witchcraft...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319812726
• ISBN13: 9783319812724
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 349 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"