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Exorcising Our Demons: Magic, Witchcraft, and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe.(Book Review)
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EXORCISING OUR DEMONS: MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, AND VISUAL CULTURE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE. By Charles Zika. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought, vol. 91. Boston: Brill, 2003. Pp. xxi + 603. Illus. $124.
The 15 articles here collected have been previously published (1976-1994) in various conference volumes, festschrifts, and journals, many of them difficult to obtain. Zika has long been concerned with "the borders of religion" (9), with beliefs, ideas, and practices commonly labeled heresy, magic, witchcraft, and "superstition," and with the historical processes by which those categories are generated and negotiated. The book focuses primarily on Germany between the 15th ...
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