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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.

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Superstitions are commonplace in the modern world. Mostly, however, they evoke innocuous images of people reading their horoscopes or avoiding black cats. Certain religious practices might also come to mind-praying to St. Christopher or lighting candles for the dead. Benign as they might seem today, such practices were not always perceived that way. In medieval Europe superstitions were considered serious offenses, violations of essential precepts of Christian doctrine or immutable natural laws. But how and why did this come to be? In Fearful Spirits, Reasoned Follies, Michael D. Bailey explores the thorny concept of superstition as it was understood and debated in the Middle Ages.Bailey begins by tracing Christian thinking about superstition from the patristic period through the early and high Middle Ages. He then turns to the later Middle Ages, a period that witnessed an outpouring of writings devoted to superstition-tracts and treatises with titles such as De superstitionibus and Contra vitia superstitionum. Most were written by theologians and other academics based in Europe's universities and courts, men who were increasingly anxious about the proliferation of suspect beliefs and practices, from elite ritual magic to common healing charms, from astrological divination to the observance of signs and omens. As Bailey shows, however, authorities were far more sophisticated in their reasoning than one might suspect, using accusations of superstition in a calculated way to control the boundaries of legitimate religion and acceptable science. This in turn would lay the conceptual groundwork for future discussions of religion, science, and magic in the early modern world. Indeed, by revealing the extent to which early modern thinkers took up old questions about the operation of natural properties and forces using the vocabulary of science rather than of belief, Bailey exposes the powerful but in many ways false dichotomy between the "superstitious" Middle Ages and "rational" European modernity.

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