Issue Announcement: Preternature 1:1 is out |
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Volume 1:1: Popular and Elite Magics Subcribe here to receive a copy of this issue. Articles Nancy Caciola and Moshe Sluhovsky, “Spiritual Physiologies: The Discernment of Spirits in Medieval and Early Modern Europe” Michael A. Ryan, “The Horn and the Relic: Mapping the Contours of Authority and Religiosity in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon” Lara Apps, “Motive Hunting in the Case of Richard Hathaway” Joseph Laycock, “Carnal Knowledge: The Epistemology of Sexual Trauma in Witches’ Sabbath, Satanic Ritual Abuse, and Alien Abduction Narratives” Short Edition John C. Hirsh, “Credulity and Belief: The Role of Postconditions in the Late Medieval Charm” [with charm texts from Oxford, Bodleian Library MS e Museo 243] Book Reviews Cameron, Euan. Enchanted Europe: Superstition, Reason, and Religion, 1250-1750. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. [Review by Michelle Brock] Collins, Derek. Magic in the Ancient Greek World. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. [Review by Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe] Gutierrez, Cathy. Plato’s Ghost: Spiritualism in the American Renaissance. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. [Review by Kristy L. Slominski] Lecouteux, Claude. The Return of the Dead: Ghosts, Ancestors, and the Transparent Veil of the Pagan Mind. Translated by Jon. E. Graham. Rochester: Inner Traditions, 2009. [Review by Stephen Gordon] Mitchell, Stephen A. Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. [Review by Stuart McWilliams] Reider, Noriko. Japanese Demon Lore: Oni from Ancient Times to the Present. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 2010. [Reviewed by Miri Nakamura] |
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Call For Papers: Preternature 2.1 Weird Tools and Strange Investigations |
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| This issue of Preternature invites contributions that explore the relationship between objects, users and the preternatural world. How were objects construed? In what social, political and cultural contexts were they deployed, and how did the ways they were used help construct experience? How were these instruments related to crucial issues of proof and persuasion? | |
| Posted: 2011-06-17 | More... |
Call For Papers: Anomalous Ethnographies: Wild Wonders, Diminutive People and Reticent Races |
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| Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural invites articles for a special issue called Anomalous Ethnographies: Wild Wonders, Diminutive People and Reticent Races, scheduled for publication in fall 2012. | |
| Posted: 2011-04-01 | More... |
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