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Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Clark, Stuart, "Demons and Disease: The Disenchantment of the Sick (1500-1700)", dins: Gijswijt-Hofstra, Marijke - Marland, Hilary - Waardt, Hans de (eds.), Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe, Londres - Nova York:, Routledge, 1997, pp. 38-58.
- Resum
- In early modern demonology - that is to say, among those intellectuals who took a broadly orthodox view of witchcraft, magic and demonism — the idea that devils could cause disease was a commonplace. The nature of the causation itself was a matter of some debate. The popular view that witches could inflict sickness on the bewitched had to be corrected in order to show that the witches themselves (unless they used natural means, like poisons) had no more power in this respect than anyone else, since their unnatural means (spells, charms and the like) lacked all efficacy. It was demons that brought the sicknesses 'caused' by witchcraft, with the spells and charms acting as the sacraments of their activity. Furthermore, demonic efficacy itself had to be circumscribed within the bounds of natural possibilities. Devils could bend nature's rules but never break them, acting pretematurally, not supematurally. If they caused real diseases - as opposed to pretending to - this had to be done either by local motion or the application of actives on passives.
- Matèries
- Bruixeria
Religió
Història de la medicina
Medicina - Pesta i altres malalties
Màgia - Fetilleria
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