Classical Culture and Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

• Main Author: Montesano, Marina (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• 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-476-1492.; Social history.; Civilization-History.; Italy-History.; History, Ancient.; History of Medieval Europe.; Social History.; Cultural History.; History of Italy.; Ancient History.

This book explores the relationships between ancient witchcraft and its modern incarnation, and by doing so fills an important gap in the historiography. It is often noted that stories of witchcraft circulated in Greek and Latin classical texts, and that treatises dealing with witch-beliefs referenc...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Prototypes: Magic and Witchcraft in Greece
• The Witch as a Woman: Tales of Magic in Rome
• Maleficia: From Late Antiquity to the High Middle Ages
• 'A Company That Go the Course'
• 'Let's Send Up Some Incense to the Lord!'
• The Italian Quattrocento
• 'Twelve Thousand Circes'
• Bibliography
• Index.