Medicine, Magic and Art in Early Modern Norway Conceptualizing Knowledge /

• Main Author: Ohrvik, Ane (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
• Subjects: Civilization-History.; Europe-History-1492-.; Medicine-History.; Social history.; Books-History.; Cultural History.; History of Early Modern Europe.; History of Medicine.; Social History.; History of the Book.

This book addresses magical ideas and practices in early modern Norway. It examines a large corpus of Norwegian manuscripts from 1650-1850 commonly called Black Books which contained a mixture of recipes on medicine, magic, and art. Ane Ohrvik assesses the Black Books from the vantage point of those...