Witchcraft in Romania

by Ioan Pop-Curseu, ?tefana Pop-Cur?eu

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031152245
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	12/01/2022
Series:	Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
Edition description:	1st ed. 2023
Pages:	331
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

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

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction: Who Are the Romanians and How to Study Witchcraft in Romania?.- Part I: Trials in Earthly Life.- Chapter 2: Witchcraft Acts: Condemnation of Sorcery in the Codes of Law.- Chapter 3: Trials, Persecutions, Executions (the Sixteenth–Nineteenth Centuries).- Chapter 4: New Elites, New Paradigms of Rationality (Eighteenth–Nineteenth Centuries): Against the Superstitions of the Romanians.- Part II: Trials in the Afterlife.- Chapter 5: Canonical Versus Apocryphal: Religious Texts Condemning Witchcraft.- Chapter 6: Doomsday and Hellfire: Iconographic Representations of Witchcraft in Last Judgment Compositions.- Chapter 7: Conclusions.