Medicine, Magic and Art in Early Modern Norway

Traces conceptual ideas of knowledge in Norway from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries
Assesses how magic and medicine were viewed as practical and sacred in early modern Europe

Utilises a wide range of early modern manuscripts from 1650 -1850, known as Black Books

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Auteur

Ane Ohrvik is Associate Professor in Cultural History at the University of Oslo, Norway. She has published widely on topics relating to magic and witchcraft, history of medicine, rituals, book history, and history of knowledge.

Contenu
Chapter 1. Finding Knowledge.- Chapter 2. Knowledge Cultures.- Chapter 3. Making Knowledge.- Chapter 4. Attributing Knowledge.- Chapter 5. Indentifying Knowledge.- Chapter 6. Situating Knowledge.- Chapter 7. Instructing Knowledge.-Chapter 8. Organising Knowledge.- Chapter 9: Conceptualising Knowledge.