The uses of supernatural power : the transformation of popular religion in medieval and early-modern Europe / Gábor Klaniczay ; translated by Susan Singerman ; edited by Karen Margolis
Published
Cambridge : Polity in association with Basil Blackwell, 1990
The carnival spirit -- Religious movements and Christian culture -- Fashionable beards and heretic rags -- From sacral kingship to self-representation -- Legends as life-strategies for aspirant saints in the later Middle Ages -- The cult of dynastic saints in central Europe -- Shamanistic elements in central European witchcraft -- Witch-hunting in Hungary -- The decline of witches and the rise of vamipires under the eighteenth-century Habsburg monarchy
Analysis
Europe Religion Sociocultural aspects, history
Europe. Religion. Sociocultural aspects,. history
Notes
Collection of studies, some translated from Hungarian or French, all revised
Europe. Religion. Sociocultural aspects,. history (BNB/PRECIS)