Editorial: Edinburgh University Press
Número de páginas: 312 págs. 15.0 x 23.0 cm
Fecha de edición: 30-11-2023
EAN: 9781474499835
ISBN: 978-1-4744-9983-5
Precio (sin IVA): 33,42 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 34,76 €
Focusing on the crossroads in the early modern period, this book deals with the literature and history of the physical crossroads: it’s magical and religious encounters, rituals of transformation, binding of undesirable spirits, siting of gallows, associations with music, and links to ancient cosmology. Physical crossroads have been culturally vital sites where forces human, demonic and divine were felt to converge. Crossroads have seemed to render the boundaries between these spheres negotiable, subject to certain artifice and timing.