The Superstitious Mind French Peasants and the Supernatural in the Nineteenth Century
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780300037104 |
Publisher: | Yale University Press |
Imprint: | Yale University Press |
Pub date: | 01 Jul 1987 |
DEWEY: | 133.0944 |
DEWEY edition: | 19 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 316 |
Weight: | 789g |
Height: | 254mm |
Width: | 165mm |
Spine width: | 30mm |