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005			20240726105442.0
008			130529s2013 nyu ob 001 0 eng d
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020			_a9780801467318 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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050	0	4	_aGR135 _b.F437 2013
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aBailey, Michael David, _d1971- _e1
245	1	0	_aFearful spirits, reasoned follies : _bthe boundaries of superstition in late medieval Europe / _cMichael D. Bailey.
260			_aIthaca : _bCornell University Press, _c(c)2013.
300			_a1 online resource
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
504			_a2
505	0	0	_aIntroduction : the meanings of medieval superstition -- _tThe weight of tradition -- _tSuperstition in court and cloister -- _tThe cardinal, the confessor, and the chancellor -- _tDilemmas of discernment -- _tWitchcraft and its discontents -- _tToward disenchantment?
520	0		_a"Superstitions are commonplace in the modern world. Mostly, however, they evoke innocuous images of people reading their horoscopes or avoiding black cats. Certain religious practices might also come to mind--praying to St. Christopher or lighting candles for the dead. Benign as they might seem today, such practices were not always perceived that way. In medieval Europe superstitions were considered serious offenses, violations of essential precepts of Christian doctrine or immutable natural laws. But how and why did this come to be? In Fearful Spirits, Reasoned Follies, Michael D. Bailey explores the thorny concept of superstition as it was understood and debated in the Middle Ages. Bailey begins by tracing Christian thinking about superstition from the patristic period through the early and high Middle Ages. He then turns to the later Middle Ages, a period that witnessed an outpouring of writings devoted to superstition--tracts and treatises with titles such as De superstitionibus and Contra vitia superstitionum. Most were written by theologians and other academics based in Europe's universities and courts, men who were increasingly anxious about the proliferation of suspect beliefs and practices, from elite ritual magic to common healing charms, from astrological divination to the observance of signs and omens. As Bailey shows, however, authorities were far more sophisticated in their reasoning than one might suspect, using accusations of superstition in a calculated way to control the boundaries of legitimate religion and acceptable science. This in turn would lay the conceptual groundwork for future discussions of religion, science, and magic in the early modern world. Indeed, by revealing the extent to which early modern thinkers took up old questions about the operation of natural properties and forces using the vocabulary of science rather than of belief, Bailey exposes the powerful but in many ways false dichotomy between the 'superstitious' Middle Ages and 'rational' European modernity."--Jacket.
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650		0	_aSuperstition _zEurope _xHistory.
650		0	_aSuperstition _xReligious aspects _xCatholic Church _xHistory.
650		0	_aCivilization, Medieval.
650		0	_aMedicine, Medieval.
650	1	2	_aSuperstitions _xhistory
650	2	2	_aCatholicism _xhistory
650	2	2	_aHistory, Medieval
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
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942			_cOB _D _eEB _hGR _m2013 _QOL _R _x _8NFIC _2LOC
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999			_c100811 _d100811
902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell