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Copyright Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2013

Abstract

The Late Middle Ages witnessed a change of perception regarding some health practices performed mostly by women. These practices, condemned over centuries by both ecclesiastical and secular elites, would acquire gradually a heretical and diabolical nature giving birth to the image of the witch in the early fifteenth century. The steps of this change are perceptible through the Catalan documentation; wich allows us to present a development that connects the actions against folk magic in the fourteenth century, the first witchcraft accusations in the early fifteenth and the great persecutions in modern times. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

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Title
E CERT TE MOLT GRAN FAMA DE BRUIXA E SE FA METGESSA E FA MEDECINES. LA DEMONIZACIÓN DE LAS PRÁCTICAS MÁGICO-MEDICINALES FEMENINAS (SIGLOS XIV-XVI)*/E cert te molt gran fama de bruixa e se fa metgessa e fa medecines. Demonizing Folk Magic and Feminine Health Practices (14th-16th Centuries)
Author
Granados, Pau Castell
Pages
233-244
Publication year
2013
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca
ISSN
02132060
e-ISSN
24453595
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Spanish
ProQuest document ID
1518633861
Copyright
Copyright Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2013