Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages
The Middle Ages Series
Stephen A. Mitchell
ISBN: | 9780812222555 |
Publisher: | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Published: | 8 March, 2013 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
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Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages
The Middle Ages Series
Stephen A. Mitchell
Mitchell's starting point is the year 1100, by which time Christianity was well established in elite circles throughout Scandinavia, even as some pre-Christian practices and beliefs persisted in various forms. The book's endpoint coincides with the coming of the Reformation and the onset of the early modern Scandinavian witch hunts. The terrain covered is complex, home to the Germanic Scandinavians as well as their non-Indo-European neighbors, the Sami and Finns, and it encompasses such diverse areas as the important trade cities of Copenhagen, Bergen, and Stockholm, with their large foreign populations; the rural hinterlands; and the insular outposts of Iceland and Greenland.
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