Knowing Demons, Knowing Spirits in the Early Modern Period

Book Overview

This book explores the manifold ways of knowing-and knowing about- preternatural beings such as demons, angels, fairies, and other spirits that inhabited and were believed to act in early modern European worlds. Its contributors examine how people across the social spectrum assayed the various types of spiritual entities that they believed dwelled invisibly but meaningfully in the spaces just beyond (and occasionally within) the limits of human perception...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319757377
• ISBN13: 9783319757377
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 317 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"