Strange histories: the trial of the pig, the walking dead, and other matters of fact from the medieval and renaissance worlds

"This book explains how beliefs that are strange to us were once widely accepted. It sets out the intellectual world of men and women in the distant past, and shows how their assumptions and expectations allowed them to believe things that we cannot: that heresy and witchcraft posed a threat to...

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1. Verfasser: Oldridge, Darren (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London [u.a.] Routledge 2005
Ausgabe:1. publ.
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Zusammenfassung:"This book explains how beliefs that are strange to us were once widely accepted. It sets out the intellectual world of men and women in the distant past, and shows how their assumptions and expectations allowed them to believe things that we cannot: that heresy and witchcraft posed a threat to society, that demons carried people through the air, and that the dead occasionally wandered from their graves."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:X, 198 S., [4] Bl. Ill.
ISBN:0415288606

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