Latin Charms of Medieval England: Verbal Healing in a Christian Oral Tradition
In what follows I shall address four elementary questions: (1) What are the near-allied genres? In other words, in what contexts do charms appear in the manuscripts? (2) In what sense can the genre be described as oral traditional? (3) What are the forms of language in which the genre coheres? (4) How, on what occasion, by whom, and for whom are charms performed, and how do they function within these situations?
The Church in Anglo-Saxon England
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Monotheism between Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity
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Gods and Worshippers in the Viking and Germanic world
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A Quantitative Evaluation of Demographic, Gender and Social Transformation Theories of the Rise of European Witch Hunting 1300-1500
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The Terror of History: The Witch Hunt in Early Modern Europe
Professor Ruiz discusses the witch craze of medieval and Early Modern Europe.
Survivals of the Cult of the Matronae into the Early Middle Ages and Beyond
From the late first century to the beginning of the fifth century CE, the area now referred to as the Rhineland was under Roman occupation. During this period, thousands of altars were carved and dedicated by individuals from diverse ethnic backgrounds, in honor of divine beings known as the Matres in Gaul and the Matronae in Germania Inferior