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Demons in Late Antiquity
Author | : Eva Elm,Nicole Hartmann |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2020-01-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783110630626 |
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Since the perception of demons in antiquity depended on particular cultural and religious milieus, the authors in this volume take into view various texts – ranging from amulets, spells, apocalypses, martyrdom literature to hagiography – and focus specifically on literary aspects of the transformation of demons and their contextualization. Are specific conceptions of demons characteristic for a certain genre or, rather, for particular religious contexts, so that they appear as topoi independent of genre? Do certain representations of demons prevail in pagan, Jewish and Christian circles alike, irrespective of religious background? How do notions of demons function in apocalypses, hymns, hagiographies or texts from healing procedures and what interdependencies of genre and social context can be traced? These questions are analysed from diverse disciplinary perspectives that offer some fresh and surprising answers.
Demons in Late Antiquity
Author | : Eva Elm,Nicole Hartmann |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2020-01-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783110632231 |
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The perception of demons in late antiquity was determined by the cultural and religious contexts. Therefore the authors of this volume take into consideration a wide variety of texts stemming from different religious milieus ranging from spells, apocalypses, martyrdom literature to hagiography and focus specifically on the literary aspects of the transformation of the demonic in this period of transition.
Demons and Illness from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period
Author | : Siam Bhayro,Catherine Rider |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2017-02-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004338548 |
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Demons and Illness from Antiquity to the Early-Modern Period explores the relationship between demons and illness from the ancient world to the early modern period. Its twenty chapters range from Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt to seventeenth-century England and Spain, and include studies of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
City of Demons
Author | : Dayna S. Kalleres |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2015-10-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780520276475 |
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Although it would appear in studies of late antique ecclesiastical authority and power that scholars have covered everything, an important aspect of the urban bishop has long been neglected: his role as demonologist and exorcist. When the emperor Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the realm, bishops and priests everywhere struggledÊ to ÒChristianizeÓ the urban spaces still dominated by Greco-Roman monuments and festivals. During this period of upheaval, when congregants seemingly attended everything but their own ÒorthodoxÓ church, many ecclesiastical leaders began simultaneously to promote aggressive and insidious depictions of the demonic. In City of Demons, Dayna S. Kalleres investigates this developing discourse and the church-sponsored rituals that went along with it, showing how shifting ecclesiastical demonologies and evolving practices of exorcism profoundly shaped Christian life in the fourth century.
Demons and Dancers
Author | : Ruth Webb |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 067403192X |
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Compared to the wealth of information available to us about classical tragedy and comedy, not much is known about the culture of pantomime, mime, and dance in late antiquity. Webb fills this gap in our knowledge and provides us with a detailed look at social life in the late antique period through an investigation of its performance culture.
Trafficking with Demons
Author | : Martha Rampton |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2022-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781501735318 |
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Trafficking with Demons explores how magic was perceived, practiced, and prohibited in western Europe during the first millennium CE. Through the overlapping frameworks of religion, ritual, and gender, Martha Rampton connects early Christian reckonings with pagan magic to later doctrines and dogmas. Challenging established views on the role of women in ritual magic during this period, Rampton provides a new narrative of the ways in which magic was embedded within the foundational assumptions of western European society, informing how people understood the cosmos, divinity, and their own Christian faith. As Rampton shows, throughout the first Christian millennium, magic was thought to play a natural role within the functioning of the universe and existed within a rational cosmos hierarchically arranged according to a "great chain of being." Trafficking with the "demons of the lower air" was the essense of magic. Interactions with those demons occurred both in highly formalistic, ritual settings and on a routine and casual basis. Rampton tracks the competition between pagan magic and Christian belief from the first century CE, when it was fiercest, through the early Middle Ages, as atavistic forms of magic mutated and found sanctuary in the daily habits of the converted peoples and new paganisms entered Europe with their own forms of magic. By the year 1000, she concludes, many forms of magic had been tamed and were, by the reckoning of the elite, essentially ineffective, as were the women who practiced it and the rituals that attended it.
Demons and Demonology in Late Antiquity
Author | : Domenico Agostini,Tommaso Tesei |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2018-11-30 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1138300349 |
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This book investigates how demons, and more generally evil beings, were conceived, represented, invoked or rejected by the main religious traditions of the Middle East between the fourth and the tenth centuries.
Demons in the Details
Author | : Sara Ronis |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2022-08-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520386174 |
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The Babylonian Talmud is full of stories of demonic encounters, and it also includes many laws that attempt to regulate such encounters. In this book, Sara Ronis takes the reader on a journey across the rabbinic canon, exploring how late antique rabbis imagined, feared, and controlled demons. Ronis contextualizes the Talmud's thought within the rich cultural matrix of Sasanian Babylonia, placing rabbinic thinking in conversation with Sumerian, Akkadian, Ugaritic, Syriac Christian, Zoroastrian, and Second Temple Jewish texts about demons to delve into the interactive communal context in which the rabbis created boundaries between the human and the supernatural, and between themselves and other religious communities. Demons in the Details explores the wide range of ways that the rabbis participated in broader discussions about beliefs and practices with their neighbors, out of which they created a profoundly Jewish demonology.