The uses of supernatural power
Subtitle: the transformation of popular religion in medieval and early-modern Europe
By: Gábor Klaniczay ; translated by Susan Singerman ; edited by Karen Margolis.
Contributors: Margolis, Karen.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Witchcraft -- Europe, Central -- History; Magic -- Europe, Central -- History; Heresies, Christian -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500; Saints -- Cult -- Europe, Central; Europe, Central -- Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-250) and index.
Essays originally written in English, French, and Hungarian.
Table of contents: title: The carnival spirit; title: Religious movements and Christian culture; title: Fashionable beards and heretic rags; title: From sacral kingship to self-representation; title: Legends as life-strategies for aspirant saints in the later Middle Ages; title: The cult of dynastic saints in central Europe; title: Shamanistic elements in central European witchcraft; title: Witch-hunting in Hungary; title: The decline of witches and the rise of vampires under the eighteenth-century Habsburg monarchy.