The Superstitious Mind : French Peasants and the Supernatural in the Nineteenth Century Hardback
by Judith Devlin
Hardback
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This intriguing book examines popular religion, traditional medicine, witchcraft, apparitions, demonology, and magic in nineteenth-century rural France.
Devlin demonstrates that many of the impulses and mental processes now considered superstitious constituted a wholly reasonable response to the pressures of a harsh and impoverished life.
Far from the product of a primitive mentality, many of these beliefs have survived in modern culture and can even illuminate the nature of modern mass politics.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:316 pages
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:10/09/1987
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- ISBN:9780300037104
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:316 pages
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:10/09/1987
- Category:
- ISBN:9780300037104