Magic Tales and Fairy Tale Magic [electronic resource] : From Ancient Egypt to the Italian Renaissance /
Bottigheimer, R.author.
This book examines magic's generally maleficent effect on humans from ancient Egypt through the Middle Ages, including tales from classical mythology, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim cultures. It shows that certain magical motifs lived on from age to age, but that it took until the Italian Renaissance for magic tales to become fairy tales.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Tales, Magic, and Fairy Tales; 2 Egyptian, Greek, and Roman Magic Tales; 3 Jewish Magic Tales; 4 Magic Tales in Medieval Christian Europe; 5 Magic Tales in the Muslim Middle Ages; 6 Magic at Court and on the Piazza; 7 The Problematics of Magic on the Threshold of Fairy Tale Magic: Straparola''s Early Modern Pleasant Nights; 8 The Evolution of Fairy Tale Magic from Straparola to Basile and Perrault; 9 Afterword; Works Cited and Referenced; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book examines magic's generally maleficent effect on humans from ancient Egypt through the Middle Ages, including tales from classical mythology, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim cultures. It shows that certain magical motifs lived on from age to age, but that it took until the Italian Renaissance for magic tales to become fairy tales.
Religion—History.
Europe—History—476-1492.
Social history.
Civilization—History.
History, Ancient.
World history.
History of Religion.
History of Medieval Europe.
Social History.
Cultural History.
Ancient History.
World History, Global and Transnational History.