Doctors, folk medicine and the Inquisition: the repression of magical healing in Portugal during the Enlightenment

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Doctors, folk medicine and the Inquisition: the repression of magical healing in Portugal during the Enlightenment
المؤلفون: Walker, Timothy Dale, 1963-
بيانات النشر: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.
سنة النشر: 2005
وصف مادي: xvi, 433 p. : 1 map., ill. ; 25 cm.
سلاسل: Medieval and early modern Iberian world
Medieval and early modern Iberian world
مصطلحات موضوعية: Physicians -- history., Medicine, Traditional -- history., History, 18th Century., Witchcraft -- history., Magic -- history., Inquisition -- Portugal -- History -- 18th century., Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric -- Portugal -- History -- 18th century., Witchcraft -- Portugal -- History -- 18th century., Enlightenment -- Portugal., History.
جغرافية الموضوع: Portugal.
الوصف: Annotation
ملاحظة حول المحتويات: pt. I. Social, political and institutional context -- Ch. 1. Introduction and overview -- Ch. 2. The role of the curandeiro and saludador in early modern Portuguese society -- Ch. 3. Englightenment influences : the movement toward medical reform in eighteenth-century Portugal -- Ch. 4. Monarch and inquisitor general : two personalities who shaped the holy office campaign against popular healers -- Ch. 5. Interconnections : the influence of licensed physicians and surgeons in the inquisition and at court during the reign of Dom Joao V -- pt. II. The repression of magical healing -- Ch. 6. A deliberate policy of oppression : Portuguese inquisition trials against popular healers for magical crimes, circa 1690-1780 -- Ch. 7. Case studies : prosecutions of curandeiros and saludadores in seventeenth- and eighteenth- century Portugal -- Ch. 8. Punishing magical criminals : mild customs (Brandos Costumes) and social control -- Ch. 9. Demographics and geographic mobility of popular healers prosecuted by the Portuguese inquisition, 1682-1802 -- Ch. 10. Conclusions.
Original Identifier: ocm57352806
نوع الوثيقة: Book
اللغة: English
ردمك: 978-90-04-14345-6
90-04-14345-9
حقوق: This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress.
ملاحظات: Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-420) and index.
رقم الأكسشن: edshlc.009742775.6
قاعدة البيانات: Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset