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Knowing Demons, Knowing Spirits in the Early Modern Period (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Knowing Demons, Knowing Spirits in the Early Modern Period (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
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This book explores the manifold ways of knowing-and knowing about-
preternatural beings such as demons, angels, fairies, and other
spirits that inhabited and were believed to act in early modern
European worlds. Its contributors examine how people across the
social spectrum assayed the various types of spiritual entities
that they believed dwelled invisibly but meaningfully in the spaces
just beyond (and occasionally within) the limits of human
perception. Collectively, the volume demonstrates that an awareness
and understanding of the nature and capabilities of spirits-whether
benevolent or malevolent-was fundamental to the knowledge-making
practices that characterize the years between ca. 1500 and 1750.
This is, therefore, a book about how epistemological and
experiential knowledge of spirits persisted and evolved in concert
with the wider intellectual changes of the early modern period,
such as the Protestant Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and
the Enlightenment.
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