Knowing Demons, Knowing Spirits in the Early Modern Period

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Brock, Michelle D. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Raiswell, Richard (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Winter, David R. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
• Subjects: Europe-History-1492-.; Europe-History-476-1492.; Social history.; Civilization-History.; Religion and sociology.; History of Early Modern Europe.; History of Medieval Europe.; Social History.; Cultural History.; Religion and Society.

This book explores the manifold ways of knowing-and knowing about- preternatural beings such as demons, angels, fairies, and other spirits that inhabited and were believed to act in early modern European worlds. Its contributors examine how people across the social spectrum assayed the various types...