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Witchcraft in Romania

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Authors:
  1. Ioan Pop-Curşeu

    1. Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

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  2. Ștefana Pop-Curșeu

    1. Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

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  • Proposes the first historical survey of witchcraft in the ancient provinces that compose contemporary Romania
  • Places Romanian witchcraft in the vast network of European magic culture, through a careful comparative approach
  • Analyses a seminal iconography related to witchcraft, gathered during long years of field research

Part of the book series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic (PHSWM)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: Who Are the Romanians and How to Study Witchcraft in Romania?

    • Ioan Pop-Curşeu, Ștefana Pop-Curșeu
    Pages 1-24

  3. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-26
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    2. Witchcraft Acts: Condemnation of Sorcery in the Codes of Law

      • Ioan Pop-Curşeu, Ștefana Pop-Curșeu
      Pages 27-64

    3. Trials, Persecutions, Executions (the Sixteenth–Nineteenth Centuries)

      • Ioan Pop-Curşeu, Ștefana Pop-Curșeu
      Pages 65-151

    4. New Elites, New Paradigms of Rationality (Eighteenth–Nineteenth Centuries): Against the Superstitions of the Romanians

      • Ioan Pop-Curşeu, Ștefana Pop-Curșeu
      Pages 153-170

  4. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-172
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    2. Canonical Versus Apocryphal: Religious Texts Condemning Witchcraft

      • Ioan Pop-Curşeu, Ștefana Pop-Curșeu
      Pages 173-217

    3. Doomsday and Hellfire: Iconographic Representations of Witchcraft in Last Judgment Compositions

      • Ioan Pop-Curşeu, Ștefana Pop-Curșeu
      Pages 219-304

    4. Conclusions

      • Ioan Pop-Curşeu, Ștefana Pop-Curșeu
      Pages 305-312

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 313-331
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About this book

This book provides a history of witchcraft in the territories that compose contemporary Romania, with a focus on the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. The first part presents aspects of earthly justice, religious and secular, analysing the codes of law, trials and verdicts, and underlining the differences between Transylvania on one hand, and Moldavia and Wallachia on the other. The second part is concerned with divine justice, describing apocalyptic texts that talk about the pains of witches in hell, but also the ensembles of religious painting where, in vast compositions of the Last Judgment, various punishments for the sin of witchcraft are imagined.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Ioan Pop-Curşeu, Ștefana Pop-Curșeu

About the authors

Ioan Pop-Curşeu is Professor at Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania.

Ștefana Pop-Curșeu is Associate Professor at Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Witchcraft in Romania

  • Authors: Ioan Pop-Curşeu, Ștefana Pop-Curșeu

  • Series Title: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15222-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-15221-4Published: 02 December 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-15224-5Published: 02 December 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-15222-1Published: 30 November 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2731-5630

  • Series E-ISSN: 2731-5649

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 331

  • Number of Illustrations: 22 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: European History, Cultural History, Social History

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