Stephen A. Mitchell

Broschiertes Buch

Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages

Beschreibung

Stephen A. Mitchell offers the fullest examination available of witchcraft in late medieval Scandinavia, drawing on extensive sources ranging from the Icelandic sagas to those much less familiar to the nonspecialist: legal cases, church frescoes, law codes, ecclesiastical records, and surviving runic spells.

Autor

Stephen A. Mitchell is Professor of Scandinavian and Folklore at Harvard University and author of Heroic Sagas and Ballads.

Produktdetails

• The Middle Ages Series
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9780812222555
• ISBN-10: 0812222555
• Artikelnr.: 36935818