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1 online resource (300 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Reform and Questions of Nature and Supernature; Witchcraft and Magic, Natural and Supernatural; Understanding Nature in Vernacular Culture; The Knowledge of the Practitioner; A "Disenchantment" of the Early Modern World?; A Proliferation of Views; 1 Witchcraft and Inquisition in the Most Serene Republic; The Structure of the Inquisition in Venice; Witchcraft and Witch "Crazes"; Inquisition Trials and Their Documents; Denunciations; Witness Testimony and the Constitutus; The Defensive Phase; Trial Outcomes. |
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Unearthing the True in the False2 Blackened Fingernails and Bones in the Bedclothes; Evidence in Maleficio Denunciations; Signs of the Supernatural; 3 Appeals to Experts; Healers as Experts; Choosing Healers; Religious Pressures; Learned Philosophy and Vernacular Approaches; 4 "Spiritual Remedies" for Possession and Witchcraft; Exorcism in Early Modern Europe; Consultations of Healing Clerics; The Social Geography of Exorcist Consultations; Exorcist Qualifications and Training; Diagnostic Practices of Venetian Clerics; Treating Supernatural Illness: Segnar, Benedir, and Scongiurar. |
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Material Elements in Spiritual RemediesThe Diminishment of the Demonic; 5 The Exorcist's Library; Diagnosing Supernatural Illness; Distinguishing Possession from Witchcraft; Manuals and Material Cures; Exorcist Theory and Practice; 6 "Not My Profession": Physicians' Naturalism; Training and Regulation of Venetian Physicians; Treatment by Physicians in Early Modern Venice; Physicians in Maleficio Trials; 7 Physicians as Believers; Physicians and the Miraculous; Physicians as "Ordinary" Witnesses; Sources of Medical Naturalism; The Limits of Naturalism; Professional Dimensions. |
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Clarity and Ambiguity8 The Inquisitor's Library; Sources of Inquisitorial Policy and Procedure; The Watchful Eye of Rome; An Instruction on Witchcraft; Advice and the Venetians; Conclusion; 9 "Nothing Proven":; Medical Expertise; Exorcists; Wise Women; Physicians; Reputations and Witchcraft Materials; Trial Outcomes: The Dog that Did Not Bark; Theory versus Practice; Inquisitorial and Vernacular Views of the Supernatural; Conclusion; Changes in Conceptions of Nature and the Supernatural; Cultural Continuities; Theory and Practice in the Pursuit of Maleficio; The Idea of Disenchantment. |
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Looking ForwardAppendix I; Appendix II; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
Records of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century witchcraft trials in Venice uncover individuals' conception of the supernatural in early modern Europe. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-281) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Trials (Witchcraft) -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- 16th century.
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Trials (Witchcraft) |
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Italy -- Venice. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
16th century |
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Inquisition -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- 16th century.
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Inquisition. |
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Trials (Witchcraft) -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- 17th century.
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| Chronological Term |
17th century |
| Subject |
Inquisition -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- 17th century.
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Italy. |
| Chronological Term |
1500-1699 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Seitz, Jonathan. Witchcraft and Inquisition in Early Modern Venice. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2011 9781107011298 |
| ISBN |
9781139118026 |
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1139118021 |
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128329639X |
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9781283296397 |
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9781139128681 (electronic book) |
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113912868X (electronic book) |
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9780511894886 (electronic book) |
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0511894880 (electronic book) |
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9781139123778 |
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1139123777 |
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9781139115858 |
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1139115855 |
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9781107011298 |
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1107011299 |
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