与魔鬼交易

玛莎。兰普顿,走私与恶魔:魔法,仪式,和性别从古代晚期到1000年(康奈尔大学出版社,2021年)探索如何神奇的被认为,练习,禁止在西欧在第一年CE。通过宗教的重叠框架,仪式,和性别,玛莎。兰普顿连接早期基督教与异教魔法之后,不仅理论和教条。挑战建立意见仪式魔法在此期间,妇女的角色。兰普顿提供了一种新的叙事方式的魔法是嵌入在西欧社会的基本假设,告知人们如何理解宇宙,神和自己的基督教信仰。

。兰普顿显示,整个基督教第一个千禧年,魔法被认为发挥自然作用在宇宙的运转和理性的宇宙中是否存在等级制度安排根据“存在之链”。Trafficking with the "demons of the lower air" was the essence of magic. Interactions with those demons occurred both in highly formalistic, ritual settings and on a routine and casual basis. Rampton tracks the competition between pagan magic and Christian belief from the first century CE, when it was fiercest, through the early Middle Ages, as atavistic forms of magic mutated and found sanctuary in the daily habits of the converted peoples and new paganisms entered Europe with their own forms of magic. By the year 1000, she concludes, many forms of magic had been tamed and were, by the reckoning of the elite, essentially ineffective, as were the women who practiced it and the rituals that attended it.

玛莎。兰普顿是充满活力和兴奋她的书,她和Jana拜亚斯有一个美妙的,热烈的聊天。

Jana拜亚斯是荷兰的学术主任:国际观点性和性别。