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Classical Culture and Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Italy (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
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Classical Culture and Witchcraft in Medieval and Renaissance Italy (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
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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 referenced them. Still, the role of
humanistic culture and classical revival in the developing of the
witch-hunts has not yet been fully researched. Marina Montesano
examines Greek and Latin literature, revealing how particular
features of ancient striges were carried into the Late Middle Ages,
through the Renaissance and into the fifteenth century, when early
Italian trials recall the myth of the strix common in ancient Latin
sources and in popular memory. The final chapter also serves as a
conclusion, to show how in Renaissance Italy and beyond, classical
accounts of witchcraft ceased to be just stories, as they had
formerly been, and were instead used to attest to the reality of
witches' powers.
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