Petzoldt, Ruth / Neubauer (ed): Demons: Mediators between This World and the Other : Essays on Demonic Beings from the Middle Ages to the Present. Frankfurt/M u.a.. Peter Lang : Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, (1998). 8° (21x15), 176 p., with numerous illustrations, publisher’s softcover, tight and clean, well cared, [= Beiträge zur Europäischen Ethnologie und Folklore : Reihe B (Tagungsberichte und Materialien); 8 : herausgegeben von Leander Petzoldt],

This volume presents a chronological series of essays on various demonic traits and traditions handed down from classical antiquity, reinterpreted and systematized in the Middle Ages in Europe, and extending their influences to our present day and culture. The main focus lies on the adaptation and reformulation of specific demonological constellations in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, combining ethnological approaches with concepts of cultural history and their reflection in the arts and in literature. These superhuman and supernatural entities present us with a multitude of forms, figures, and functions – from helpful messengers and mediators to frightful and devilish antagonists of the humans they encounter. As model explanations of that which may not be explained in any other way they offer answers and interpretations of the ‚Other‘ outside humanity as well as inside the human being. (publisher)

content:
Introduction (Paul Neubauer and Ruth Petzoldt).– The Universe of Demons and the World of the Middle Ages (Leander Petzoldt).– Facts and Fiction: The Iconography of Demons in German : Vernacular Manuscripts (Norbert H. Ott).– Sibylla Led Astray: Sibyls in Medieval Literature (Winfried Frey).– The Sailor Demon of Vulcano in Antoine de La Sale’s Geography of the Demonic, L’Excursion aux iles Lipari (Simonetta Cochis).– Encounters with the Other World: The Medieval Iconography of Alexander the Great and Henry the Lion (Norbert H. Ott).– Cynocephalic Demons in Medieval Song, Legend, and Epic (Donald Ward).– The Devil in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Florentine Engravings (Ludovica Sebregondi).– Medieval Answers to the Strange World Outside: Foreigners and the Foreign as Cultural Challenges and Catalysts (Albrecht Classen).– The Comeback of the Vampires: The History of the Motif from Medieval Legends to Contemporary Literature (Ruth Petzoldt).– The Demon of Loss and Longing: The Function of the Ghost in Toni Morrison’s Beloved (Paul Neubauer).–

• Kategorie: Märchen Mythologie – Sekundärliteratur
• Schlagwörter: Angelologie Engel Dämonen · Geister/Dämonen · Kulturethologie Kultursoziologie Kulturanthropologie · Mythologie Mythos; mythus; mythology myth
• Sprache: Englisch (en)
• ISBN: 3-631-33190-8
• Bestellnummer: 57922AB foto

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