IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 316: Magic, Witchcraft, and Reform: Discourse, Legislation, and Practice, III
Monday 13 July 2009, 16.30-18.00
Organiser: | Georg Modestin, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, München |
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Moderator/Chair: | Georg Modestin, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, München |
Paper 316-a | Franciscan and Dominican Observance and their Take on Magic and Superstition (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Mentalities |
Paper 316-b | Preachers and Confessors against Superstition: Bernardino Busti and Sermon 16 of his Rosarium Sermonum (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Mentalities |
Paper 316-c | Secularising the Sacred: Thomas Middleton and the Figure of the Witch (Language: English) |
Abstract | This session will explore transformations in European society and culture related to magic and the emergence of diabolical witchcraft in the 15th century, linking these developments to aspects of reform, itself understood as a broad category. This session will focus especially on theological and reformist concerns about superstition and ars magica in the late medieval period. |