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- Title
Cannibali ma non troppo. La antropofagia en los orígenes del imaginario del sabbat: singularidades del caso italiano.
- Authors
Campagne, Fabián Alejandro
- Abstract
There is no doubt that cannibalism is a central piece of the early modern witch stereotype and that witchcraft has been also relevant to the elaboration of the cannibal myth in the West. For this reason, it is relevant to analyze on the relationships between both myths in Renaissance Europe. I will focus the analysis on the first century of the European witchhunt, while from a spatial perspective I will circumscribe the investigation to central and northern Italy. Recently many scholars have drawn attention to the importance of regionalizing the genesis of the sabbat mythology. For a long time, historians have assumed that the prosecution of witchcraft was based on a single monolithic paradigm. However, the mythology centered on late-scholastic diabolism adopted contrasting characteristics according to the different European regions. This is an extremely useful finding for the study of the witch-hunt throughout its history, but in a very particular way for the first century of the phenomenon.
- Subjects
CANNIBALISM; WITCHCRAFT; MYTHOLOGY; RENAISSANCE; CANNIBALS
- Publication
Tiempos Modernos, 2022, Vol 12, Issue 45, p1
- ISSN
1699-7778
- Publication type
Article