During the Middle Ages a shared European concept of magic
emerged. In the early period, pagan beliefs and practices were
absorbed into everyday culture, including the rituals of the
Church. The rise of the practice of "white magic" in the twelfth
century became so popular that it caused a widespread determination
in the Church to condemn any unsanctioned beliefs or practices. The
Church and state, both centralized powers in a decentralized
Europe, gradually sharpened their attitude toward magic in general,
and sorcery and witchcraft in particular, paving the way for the
violent outbreaks of witch persecutions in early modern
Europe.Witchcraft and Magic in Europe combines the traditional
approaches of political, legal, and social historians with a
critical synthesis of cultural anthropology, historical psychology,
and gender studies. The series, complete in six volumes, provides a
modern, scholarly survey of the supernatural beliefs of Europeans
from ancient times to the present day. Each volume of this
ambitious six-volume series contains the work of distinguished
scholars chosen for their expertise in a particular era or
region.
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