Traditions
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The Reform of Aulic Space in Late-Eighteenth-Century France
Called upon by Napoleon to give material form to his court protocol, Antoine-François Peyre’s pupils, the architects Charles Percier and…
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The Background to Witchcraft, Magic and Superstition
This article examines popular belief in witchcraft, magic and superstition from 1640 to 1670.
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Pentecostal Witches: Witchcraft in Postcolonial Mozambique
Witchcraft in postcolonial Mozambique offers a context engendered a robust notion of an “other same”, such as a witch —…
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Funeral Rites and Death-Ritual Practices in Greek Tragedy
Examples of manipulation of the funeral ritual by the Greek tragedians will clearly bring into question the validity of using…
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Witchcraft and Inquisition in Early Contemporary Venice, Rome
The early modern Venetian Inquisition was thus an offshoot of, and theoretically under the control of, the Roman Inquisition.
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Transformation of the Gothic in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Despite the fact that some critics view the period of the true Gothic as ending in the year 1820, others…
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Spectral Pumpkins: Cultural Icons and the Gothic Everyday
Over the centuries, the pumpkin gourd has evolved from a simple foodstuff found in many homes and gardens around the…
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Contemporary Pagans and the Blood that Matters
At festivals, Neopagans celebrate the identities they have borrowed from ancient or non-Christian religions, such as Santeria.
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The Egyptian Royal Funerary Complexes
The royal funerary complexes constituted an indispensable part of the ancient Egyptian state of the Old Kingdom.
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Mythologies of Death and on the Origins of Dying
As is well known, only a few myths explain the advent of death as a consequence of man’s transgressing a…
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Witchcraft and Magic in Enlightenment Europe
The so-called Enlightenment of the eighteenth-century has often been portrayed as a period in which much of Europe cast off…
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Issues of the Witchcraft Phenomenon in the Renaissance
As the woman next door, the witch disrupted the domestic sphere, interfering with food supplies and the health of infants…
