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religion --- magic --- astrology --- witchcraft --- popular beliefs --- England

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Une sainte diffère peu d'une magicienne ou d'une sorcière. L'une a langue avec Dieu quand les deux autres font commerce avec Satan. Jeanne d'Arc ne sera-t-elle pas condamnée pour sorcellerie ? Ces êtres maléfiques ou pas, bons ou mauvais, qui savent les secrets des hommes, connaissent les herbes et parlent aux cieux inquiètent leurs contemporains et, du coup, exercent sur eux un vrai pouvoir. L'histoire des superstitions au Moyen Age s'ouvre chez les Celtes - au temps du paganisme et des idoles -, et s'achève à l'ombre des bûchers sur lesquels des sorcières furent brûlées par milliers. Les mentalités évoluent lentement. Plusieurs siècles sont nécessaires, qui voient fleurir les pratiques magiques pour conjurer un sort, changer les destins, ou concurrencer les usages religieux et le pouvoir des reliques. Historien, spécialiste des mentalités, Jean Verdon raconte ici la longue histoire de ces traditions jugées populaires mais suivies par tous, qu'écrivains, magistrats et savants n'auront de cesse de combattre, en une véritable guerre des croyances.

Superstition --- History --- Mediaeval History --- Popular Beliefs --- Superstitions --- History. --- Folk beliefs --- Traditions --- Folklore --- Religion --- Superstition - France - History --- Superstition - Europe - History

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Jainism --- Jaïnisme --- History --- Dictionaries. --- Histoire --- Dictionnaires anglais --- Jaïnisme --- Dictionaries --- historical development --- religious thought --- practices --- rituals --- popular beliefs --- soteriology --- mythology --- sacred places --- social order --- art --- Jain scriptures

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The volume tells us about the close relationship between heaven and earth, between the extraordinary and the everyday, between faith and science, highlighted by the countless episodes of piety that allow us to retrace history and grasp its transformations, starting from the lived life of thousands of protagonists. In fact, the painted votive tablets prove to be an exceptional vector for reproducing and transmitting the values of the community: family, homeland, work, care for animals and the territory, use of means of transport and old and new technologies. In the ex-voto the cycles of life and seasons unfold and the impact on them of small and large natural or social disasters that recur over time with impressive regularity, unfortunately we find ourselves unprepared each time. In dealing with risks and calamities of all kinds, ex-votos women and men look upwards - with great dignity - asking them to survive, persist and replicate themselves as biological entities and cultural entities. The long sequence of events narrated in the ex-votos constitutes a sort of DNA of our nation, indispensable for shaping the country's future. Also for this reason, painted ex-votos must be detected, filed, preserved, protected, valued, studied and brought to the attention of the general public, as this volume proposes.

Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church --- Popular culture --- Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge --- Folklore, myths & legends --- Ex-voto --- Sanctuaries --- Behavioral strategies --- Identification --- Votive tablets --- Bodies in action

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The volume tells us about the close relationship between heaven and earth, between the extraordinary and the everyday, between faith and science, highlighted by the countless episodes of piety that allow us to retrace history and grasp its transformations, starting from the lived life of thousands of protagonists. In fact, the painted votive tablets prove to be an exceptional vector for reproducing and transmitting the values of the community: family, homeland, work, care for animals and the territory, use of means of transport and old and new technologies. In the ex-voto the cycles of life and seasons unfold and the impact on them of small and large natural or social disasters that recur over time with impressive regularity, unfortunately we find ourselves unprepared each time. In dealing with risks and calamities of all kinds, ex-votos women and men look upwards - with great dignity - asking them to survive, persist and replicate themselves as biological entities and cultural entities. The long sequence of events narrated in the ex-votos constitutes a sort of DNA of our nation, indispensable for shaping the country's future. Also for this reason, painted ex-votos must be detected, filed, preserved, protected, valued, studied and brought to the attention of the general public, as this volume proposes.

Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church --- Popular culture --- Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge --- Folklore, myths & legends --- Ex-voto --- Sanctuaries --- Behavioral strategies --- Identification --- Votive tablets --- Bodies in action --- Ex-voto --- Sanctuaries --- Behavioral strategies --- Identification --- Votive tablets --- Bodies in action