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1 online resource (259 pages). |
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Hors serie
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Hors série.
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction "By Fire and Sword"; William of Auvergne's Demons; Historiography; The Plan of the Work; Chapter 1; William of Auvergne and the Making of High Medieval France; Early Life; The Economic Basis of Change; The French Monarchy in William's Youth; Religious Enthusiasm and Dissent; Study in Paris; The Role and Development of the University; The New Learning in General; William and Necromancy; From Philip Augustus to Louis IX; The Albigensian Crusade; The Friars; William at the Cathedral; Election as Bishop. |
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University Revolt and the FriarsHigh Politics; Anecdotes about William; Learning, Censure and the Cure of Souls; Heresy; Condemnation of the Talmud; Crusade; Conclusion; Chapter 2; A Universe Filled with Powers; Definitions; Nature and Supernature in Thirteenth-Century Thought; Belief, Story and Theory; Manifestations of a Christian Universe; Sacred Kingship and Providential Power; Astrology; Marvels: A Miscellany of the Strange; Magic; Spirits; Conclusion; Chapter 3; "We are Legion"; Diverse Demons; Demons Old and New; Christian Concepts; Fallen Angels; Tempters; Possession. |
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Prisoners and Punishers in HellSources of Magic, Familiars of Magicians; Begetters of Idolatry, Heresy and False Belief; Spirits of Nature; Stellar Orders; Earthly Orders; Mysterious Beings; Threatening Apparitions; Sexual Partners, Harassers, and Procreators; Good Demons; Demons as the Dead; Conclusion; Chapter 4; Demonic Intent, Nature and Powers; The Suspicion of Idolatry; Worship; By Fire and Sword; Bodiless, Corrupted and Bound: Demonic Nature; Incorporeality Asserted, Airy Bodies Denied; Corruption of Demonic Minds and Emotions; Demonic Hierarchy; Demons in the Air, on Earth and in Hell. |
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Demons and the PlanetsDemons on Earth; Demons in Hell; Demonic Powers; Carrying Saints by the Hair: Demons and the Physical; Natural Magic; Demons and the Human Composite: Illusions & Possession; Possession; Illusion; Restrictions; Demons Subject to the Natural; Divine Permission; Conclusion; Chapter 5; Generation and Divination; William's Interpretive Matrix; The Demonic Production of Life; The Magical Generation of Animals; Sexual Generation; Fingernails and the Soul; The Relevance of Fingernails; The Errors of Plato; Natural and Divine Access to Illumination; Demons and Visions; Conclusion. |
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Chapter 6Terrors and Apparitions:; The Wild Hunt and Female Spirits; The Wild Hunt; The Nature of the Wild Hunt; Hallucinations; Demonic Illusions; Corporeal Revenants Denied; Purgatorial Souls--Vision and Actuality; Ambiguity of Causation; Women, Female Spirits, and Night Terrors; The Wild Hunt and Female Spirits; The White Ladies; The Paradoxical Masculinity of Sexless Angels; Night-terrors and Sudden Death; Conclusion; Conclusion; Synthesis and Censure; The Relevance of Demonology; Final Thoughts; Bibliography; Manuscripts; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Index. |
| Summary |
This book examines the demonology of William of Auvergne, to determine why and how he constructed his theories out of contemporary lore about demons and other spirits. William was a master of theology in the University of Paris and bishop of Paris from 1228 until his death in 1249, a position in which he served as a major advisor to the young Louis IX. With his demonology he sought to impose an order he considered doctrinally acceptable onto the turbulence of early thirteenth-century France. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-238) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
William, of Auvergne, Bishop of Paris, 1180-1249.
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William, of Auvergne, Bishop of Paris, 1180-1249. |
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Demonology.
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Demonology. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: De Mayo, Thomas B. Demonology of William of Auvergne : By Fire and Sword. Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2007 9780773452428 |
| ISBN |
9780773421035 (electronic book) |
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0773421033 (electronic book) |
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9780773452428 |
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0773452427 |
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