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    Freiheit und Aberglaube in der theologie des Genfer Reformators

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    Aberglaube und Occultismus

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    ABERGLAUBE UND OCCULTISMUS Aberglaube und Occultismus / Müller, Karl Julius (Public Domain) ( - ) Title page ( - ) Preface ( - ) Text ([5]) I. (6) II. (22) Anhang ([39]) Advertising (45) Imprint (48

    Reivew of Des Teufels Lug und Trug: Nikolaus Magni von Jauer, Ein Reformtheologe des 15. Jahrhunderts gegen Aberglaube und Götzendienst

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    Late medieval superstition has received a fair amount of attention recently. In 2010, Euan Cameron’s expansive Enchanted Europe: Superstition, Reason, and Religion, 1250–1750 considered it at some length before moving on to later periods, and in 2013 my own Fearful Spirits, Reasoned Follies: The Boundaries of Superstition in Late Medieval Europe dealt with it exclusively. Krzysztof Bracha’s detailed study of a single late medieval author and a major (arguably the major) late medieval treatise on superstition is both the latest and also earliest important study in this area. The book is a German translation and updating of Bracha’s 1999 Polish publication Teolog, diabel i zabobony:Świadectwo traktatu Mikolaja Magni z Jawora De superstitionibus (1405 r.). In the intervening years, he has produced a number of valuable articles on superstition, several in German and a few in English, but it is wonderful to have his major study finally made available in a language that far more Western European and American scholars will be able to read

    Sampling Chaos

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    This article deals with a particular aspect of the genesis of the Bilderatlas Mnemosyne composed by Aby Warburg between 1927 and 1929. It has to do with his reaction to the events of the Great War, a reaction which is at the same time ‘pathetic’ (even ‘pathological’) and ‘epistemic’ (that is to say methodological). If the history of culture amounts, for Warburg, to a great ‘psychomachia’ of the astra and the monstra, as he said, then it seems evident that the war for him was a direct test of his ‘science of culture’ (Kulturwissenschaft).  It is no surprise that between 1914 and 1918 Warburg created a large iconographic collection of the war whose theoretical foundations I wish here to examine by comparing it with the efforts of his contemporaries in Germany and France (notably in the work of Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch).

    A Late-Medieval Crisis of Superstition?

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    The medieval church had always been concerned about superstition. In the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries—the waning years, as some would have it, of the European Middle Ages—certain theologians and other clerical authorities became obsessed with it. Authors from Iberia to the Low Countries and from Paris to Vienna turned their attention to this topic, and particularly in the first half of the 1400s a wave of tracts and treatises explicitly de superstitionibus issued from their pens. For these men, superstition was a serious error, not the typically harmless foolishness that modern use of the term tends to convey. In the theology of the age, superstitio meant most basically an excess of religion, literally “religion observed beyond proper measure.” Since human beings could not possibly offer a superabundance of proper worship beyond what God, in his perfection, de-served, this excess necessarily implied improper religious rites and observances. Superstition meant either performing elements of the divine cult incorrectly or, worse still, offering worship to entities other than the Deity

    Eine Äusserung Egli's über seine Studien zur Reformationsgeschichte Zürich's

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    German Enlightenment

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    This article is available (in Hebrew translation) in: “Niemieckie oświecenie” (German Enlightenment), in Filozofia Oświecenia. Radykalizm – religia – kosmopolityzm (Enlightenment Philosophy: Radical, Religious, and Cosmopolitan, edited by Justyna Miklaszewska and Anna Tomaszewska (Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, 2016) 65-94. The author retains English rights to the article, and has submitted it for inclusion in OpenBU

    Edwin Linkomies in memoriam

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