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Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Rider, Catherine, "Medical Magic and the Church in Thirteenth-Century England", Social History of Medicine, 24/1 (2011), 92-107.
- Resum
- This paper examines the discussions of ‘magical' cures found in thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century English pastoral manuals (texts designed to teach the clergy how to preach and hear confessions). It discusses these writers' attitudes to spoken and written charms and non-verbal amulets, and
compares them with a selection of charms and amulets found in contemporary medical texts. The paper discusses the reasons why authors of pastoral manuals condemned certain kinds of cure as ‘magical', and argues that they were more concerned about cures that involved words than about non-verbal amulets. It also argues that a significant number, although not all, of the charms described in thirteenth-century medical texts would have been acceptable to many authors of pastoral manuals.
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Màgia - Màgia religiosa
- URL
- https://www.academia.edu/1388967/Medical_Magic_and_ ...
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