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- This formidable but brilliant book explains how European intellectuals, in the age of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, created an interpretation of witches as conspirators with the Devil – a spirit of terrifying power.
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Oct 21, 1999 · This book offers a new interpretation of the witchcraft beliefs of European intellectuals based on their publications in the field of demonology, and shows how these beliefs fitted rationally with many other views current in Europe between the 15th and 18th centuries. The book explores the appeal of demonology to early modern intellectuals by ...
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Stuart Clark’s Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe breaks new ground. It is a meticulously researched intellectual and cultural history of demonology with an introductory sequence of ten chapters on Language, followed by thirty-four chapters divided into four “subject categories”—Science, History ...
What made witchcraft a matter for debate and, indeed, controversy, was the existence of a range of explanations of preternatural phenomena. All mira (we recall from Chapter 11) had to be located somewhere on a grid with four reference points: the demonic; the non-demonic; the true; the false.
Oct 21, 1999 · This kind of neutral reference to the external world is held to be the only reliable source of meaning and, indeed, the most important property of language. In consequence, it has been possible to account for witchcraft beliefs (like any others) in only two ways.
Stuart Clark offers a new interpretation of the witchcraft beliefs of European intellectuals based on their publications in the field of demonology, and shows how these beliefs fitted rationally...
Apr 3, 2019 · Belief in witchcraft was by no means killed off by the scientific revolution. These findings not only present the background to the scientific revolution in a new light, but lead Clark to say some challenging things, in a more philosophical spirit, about the rationality of alien systems of thought.
His revolutionary approach to the study of angels created the conceptual basis that allowed theologians and other members of the cultural elite to explain the physical and visible manifestations of demons in the material world, especially their interactions with human beings.
