Title: The uses of supernatural power : the transformation of popular religion in medieval and early-modern Europe /
Authors: Klaniczay, Gábor.; Margolis, Karen.
Publisher: Polity in association with Basil Blackwell,
Year: 1990
Subjects: Supernatural.; Folklore Europe; Europe Religion.; Europe Church history.
Contents: 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.