TY  - BOOK
AU  - Flint,Valerie Irene Jane
TI  - The Rise of Magic in Early Medieval Europe
SN  - 9780691210025
AV  - BF1593 
U1  - 133.43094 20
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Church history
KW  - Middle Ages, 600-1500
KW  - Civilization, Medieval
KW  - Magic
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - HISTORY / Medieval
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Agobard of Lyons
KW  - Alcuin
KW  - Bede
KW  - Charlemagne
KW  - Eucharist
KW  - Gall of Clermont, Saint
KW  - Jerome, Saint
KW  - Lacnunga
KW  - Lucan
KW  - Mass
KW  - Origen
KW  - Paul, Saint
KW  - Simon Magus
KW  - Tacitus
KW  - Virgil
KW  - amulets
KW  - baptism
KW  - church councils
KW  - death
KW  - dreams (visions)
KW  - entrails
KW  - fear (terror)
KW  - graves (tombs)
KW  - hagiography
KW  - knots
KW  - lndiculus Superstitionum
KW  - lot casting
KW  - maleficium
KW  - medicine
KW  - ordeal
KW  - planets
KW  - relics
KW  - runes
KW  - sacrifices
KW  - stars
KW  - weaving
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; PART I. Introduction --; Chapter 1. The Scope of the Study --; Chapter 2. The Legacy of Attitudes --; Chapter 3. The Sources for the Early Middle Ages --; Chapter 4. The Situation --; PART II. The Magic of the Heavens --; Chapter 5. The Magic That Persisted: Condemned Magical Agencies --; Chapter 6. The Magic That Was Needed: Rescued Means of Magical Intervention --; Chapter 7. The Magic That Was Needed: The Power of the Cross in the Heavens --; PART III. The Magic of the Earth --; Chapter 8. Forbidden Magic: The Focal Points of Christian Disapproval --; Chapter 9. Encouraged Magic: The Process of Rehabilitation --; PART IV. The Magus --; Chapter 10. The Discredited Practitioner: Charlatans --; Chapter 11. The Figure of Esteem: Christian Counterparts --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - "There are forces better recognized as belonging to human society than repressed or left to waste away or growl about upon its fringes." So writes Valerie Flint in this powerful work on magic in early medieval Europe. Flint shows how many of the more discerning leaders of the early medieval Church decided to promote non-Christian practices originally condemned as magical--rather than repressing them or leaving them to waste away or "growl." These wise leaders actively and enthusiastically incorporated specific kinds of "magic" into the dominant culture not only to appease the contemporary non-Christian opposition but also to enhance Christianity itself
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