Overview
- Proposes the first historical survey of witchcraft in the ancient provinces that compose contemporary Romania
- Places Romanian witchcraft in the vast network of European magic culture, through a careful comparative approach
- Analyses a seminal iconography related to witchcraft, gathered during long years of field research
Part of the book series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic (PHSWM)
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This book provides a history of witchcraft in the territories that compose contemporary Romania, with a focus on the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. The first part presents aspects of earthly justice, religious and secular, analysing the codes of law, trials and verdicts, and underlining the differences between Transylvania on one hand, and Moldavia and Wallachia on the other. The second part is concerned with divine justice, describing apocalyptic texts that talk about the pains of witches in hell, but also the ensembles of religious painting where, in vast compositions of the Last Judgment, various punishments for the sin of witchcraft are imagined.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Ioan Pop-Curşeu is Professor at Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania.
Ștefana Pop-Curșeu is Associate Professor at Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania.
Ștefana Pop-Curșeu is Associate Professor at Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Witchcraft in Romania
Authors: Ioan Pop-Curşeu, Ștefana Pop-Curșeu
Series Title: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15222-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-15221-4Published: 02 December 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-15224-5Published: 02 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-15222-1Published: 30 November 2022
Series ISSN: 2731-5630
Series E-ISSN: 2731-5649
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 331
Number of Illustrations: 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: European History, Cultural History, Social History