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Enchanted Europe - Superstition, Reason, and Religion 1250-1750 (Paperback)
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Enchanted Europe - Superstition, Reason, and Religion 1250-1750 (Paperback)
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Since the dawn of history people have used charms and spells to try
to control their environment, and forms of divination to try to
foresee the otherwise unpredictable chances of life. Many of these
techniques were called 'superstitious' by educated elites. For
centuries religious believers used 'superstition' as a term of
abuse to denounce another religion that they thought inferior, or
to criticize their fellow-believers for practising their faith
'wrongly'. From the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, scholars
argued over what 'superstition' was, how to identify it, and how to
persuade people to avoid it. Learned believers in demons and
witchcraft, in their treatises and sermons, tried to make
'rational' sense of popular superstitions by blaming them on the
deceptive tricks of seductive demons. Every major movement in
Christian thought, from rival schools of medieval theology through
to the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Enlightenment, added
new twists to the debates over superstition. Protestants saw
Catholics as superstitious, and vice versa. Enlightened
philosophers mocked traditional cults as superstitions. Eventually,
the learned lost their worry about popular belief, and turned
instead to chronicling and preserving 'superstitious' customs as
folklore and ethnic heritage. Enchanted Europe is the first
comprehensive, integrated account of western Europe's long, complex
dialogue with its own folklore and popular beliefs. Drawing on many
little-known and rarely used texts, Euan Cameron constructs a
compelling narrative of the rise, diversification, and decline of
popular 'superstition' in the European mind.
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