Knowing Demons Knowing Spirits in the Early Modern Period 1st Edition by Michelle D Brock, Richard Raiswell, David R Winter ISBN 3319757377 978-3319757377

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ISBN 10: 3319757377

ISBN 13: 978-3319757377 

Author: Michelle D. Brock, Richard Raiswell, David R. Winter 

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.

Table of contents:

Part I. Introduction
1. Theory and Practice in Early Modern Epistemologies of the Preternatural
Part II. Knowing in Theory
2. Knowing the Spirit(s) in the Dutch Radical Reformation: From Physical Perception to Rational Doubt, 1536–1690
3. Hell and Fairy: The Differentiation of Fairies and Demons Within British Ritual Magic of the Early Modern Period
4. Preternatural Peasants and the Discourse of Demons: Xenoglossy, Superstition, and Melancholy in Early Modern Spain
5. Testing for Demonic Possession: Scribonius, Goclenius, and the Lemgo Witchcraft Trial of 1583
6. “The Damned Trinity”: Judas, the Devil, and the Hell-Beast in Russian Iconography
Part III. Knowing in Practice
7. Curious Companions: Spirit Conjuring and Alchemy in the Sixteenth Century
8. Edward Terry and the Demons of India
9. Jesuit Missionaries and the Accommodationist Demons of New France
10. Angels, Devils, and Discernment in Early Modern Scotland
11. Discerning Spirits in the Early Enlightenment: The Case of the French Prophets
Part IV. Afterword
12. The Science of Knowing Spirits: Rationality and the Invisible World

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