This thesis is an examination of the belief and practice of popular magic, specifically related to charmers, in the presbyteries of Haddington and Stirling between the years 1603 and 1688. It is the first study of either locality which concentrates on identifying the difference between charmers and witches, and considers the practice of the former in the broader context of seventeenth-century attitudes towards health and disease of both orthodox medical practitioners and the wider population. The thesis examines charmers and their healing practice in reference to theories of power, popular and elite culture, the church and gender, and reveals new information about seventeenth-century society. The principles and practice of charmers are then compared to orthodox medicine and popular magic, and the recorded healing treatments and rituals have been examined and analysed in close detail. A comparative analysis has been made of the two localities which assesses and contrasts patterns of witchcraft and charming accusation on a parish level. By using evidence contained in kirk records, supplemented by secular court material, it has been shown that all levels of society identified differences between the practice and intent of charmers and witches. Accusation and prosecution of witches was influenced more by local elites, and by elite demonological theories, than accusations of charming. Importantly, the devil was not a feature of charming accusations. Due to the overt nature of charming, differences in its perception and acceptability were highlighted by the less severe penalties which were ordered by the kirk. The dilemma for the church and society was that the church had, to an extent, surrendered its practical healing role with the abandonment of pre-Reformation ritual. The emphasis on personal piety and prayer for the relief of mental and physical suffering did not appear to offer sufficient comfort for the rest of society.

Bibliography: leaves 353-361 / [6], 361 leaves : ill., facsim., map ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, 1990

This thesis is concerned with the editorial, printing and marketing history of four Byzantine historical narratives, published between 1556 and 1645, and soon collectively identified under the name Corpus Historiæ Byzantinæ (hereinafter, 'Byzantine Corpus'). The four Byzantine historians - Ioannes Zonaras, Niketas Choniates, Nikephoros Gregoras and Laonikos Chalkokondyles - enjoyed considerable popularity in early modern Europe, with a peak of interest in the second half of the sixteenth century. This thesis aims at highlighting how these four texts, despite being so popular in a number of early modern European countries (particularly in the German-speaking area, in Italy and in France), did not do so for the same reasons: in fact, depending on the country in which these books were printed, they were marketed, perceived and read in very different ways. This element is particularly relevant in light of the fact that the Byzantine Corpus represents the earliest predecessor of the Corpus Fontium Historiæ Byzantinæ, the modern resource for the study of Byzantine historical sources. Chapter 1 analyses the early formation of the Byzantine Corpus and, in particular, the figure of Hieronymus Wolf, first editor of the Byzantine Corpus, often considered the 'father' of Byzantine studies; his relation with his patrons, the Fuggers of Augsburg; finally, his relation with his publisher, the Basel printer Johannes Oporinus. It then provides contextualised bibliographical and paratextual descriptions of the editiones principes of the Byzantine Corpus, all printed in Basel. Chapters 2-5 reflect the same comparative approach, used to investigate how the later editions of the Byzantine Corpus were prepared and marketed in different European countries: each chapter provides a bibliographical and paratextual analysis of the subsequent German, Italian, French and Genevan editions respectively. The Conclusions draw together all the information collected in the previous chapters and investigate three pivotal aspects of the Byzantine Corpus: i) the formation of the Byzantine Corpus and the individual popularity of each of the four Byzantine historians based on the frequency and popularity of both individual and collective editions; ii) the distinctive reasons of their popularity, analysed through a comparison of the different approaches with which editors and publishers have presented these texts to their respective audiences in Germany, Italy and France; iii) the reasons for the rise and decline in popularity of the Byzantine Corpus in the early seventeenth century.

Orientador: Leandro Karnal / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-23T23:45:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rocha_CarlosGuilherme_M.pdf: 1482216 bytes, checksum: e2a20df8d5f844e53dbe24f4409df4ca (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Resumo: A proposta deste trabalho consiste em analisar a relação conflituosa entre o capitão-geral e governador da província de Cartagena das Índias, Francisco de Murga, e os ministros do tribunal da Inquisição da cidade de Cartagena. Os enfrentamentos entre as partes remontam aos primeiros meses do governo de Murga, que aportou em Cartagena em outubro de 1629, e perduraram até meados do ano de 1636, quando houve uma mudança no governo provincial. O objetivo principal é analisar o âmbito jurídico do conflito, isto é, o modo como as partes envolvidas recorriam ao uso do direito, quais as argumentações e os fundamentos enunciados. Parto do princípio que a análise do direito e da estrutura jurídica é ponto basilar para a compreensão das relações institucionais no Antigo Regime. Neste sentido será analisada principalmente a natureza jurídica do Santo Ofício apresentada nos discursos e práticas originárias do conflito. Será analisada também a representação da autonomia inquisitorial frente os poderes civis, que se destaca nas práticas em questão. Nesse sentido, este trabalho enfatiza como os fundamentos jurídicos da Inquisição e do governo provincial são princípios que orientam as ações dos envolvidos no conflito em questão / Abstract: The aim of this work is to analyze the conflicting relationship between the captain general and governor of the province of Cartagena of the Indies, Francisco de Murga, and the ministers of the court of the Inquisition in Cartagena. The confrontations between the parties date back to the first months of Murga's government, who arrived in Cartagena in October 1629, and lasted until mid-1636, when there was a change in the provincial government. The main purpose of this study is to analyze the legal scope of the conflict, i. e., the manner in which interested parties used to appeal to the use of the law, the arguments and pleas they had mentioned. I assume that the analysis of law and legal structure is fundamental to understanding the institutional relations in the Ancien Régime. In this sense, th legal nature of the Holy Office, presented in the discourses and practices thata had given rise to the conflicts will be mainly analyzed. It will be also analyzed the representation of inquisitorial autonomy in relation to civil powers, which stands out in the practices concerned. In this sense, the emphasis of this study is how the legal bases of the Inquisition and the provincial government are guiding principles of the actions of those Who were involved in the conflicting relationship concerned / Mestrado / Historia Cultural / Mestre em História

In his evocative account of walking through Restoration London, the seventeenth-century diarist Samuel Pepys conveys a vibrant city comprised of movement, exchange, and conflict. We follow Pepys, for example, into the coffee-house on his insatiable search for news and political argument. Within urban space he is equally persistent, noting the ritual demarcation of urban boundaries at moments of tension between London and the Crown, or describing how the city's spaces were alarmingly transformed by the presence of disease. This is hardly the London imagined by scholars of the Restoration, who have characterized this historical moment of the return of Charles II and restoration of monarchical government to England as a time of concord after the violent struggles resulting in civil war at mid-century. It is telling that one of the first strategies adopted by Charles IPs government to stabilize a volatile situation in London was to assert control over print. At this moment, though, print culture served to open up urban space in new ways, becoming a mode of opportunity for individuals like Pepys. My dissertation considers precisely the interrelation between these spaces and forms of print. Like Pepys, my thesis journeys through the city, stopping at the Restoration coffee-house. These spaces of congregation, where print was displayed and purchased, appeared in significant numbers around the Royal Exchange after 1660. The coffee-house has been given mythic proportions in the twentieth century as the foundation of a modern public sphere. However, as this thesis will show, instead of producing an abstract and universal realm of public opinion, the coffee-house was an actual space formed through contestation, and through a struggle taking place between an older form of subjectivity and a newer urban culture. Another site of urban contestation shaped through print was the street processions staged by Whigs during the Exclusion Crisis, a moment of increased City and Crown tensions. Within these political struggles, the unexpected also had its part to play. The crisis brought on by bubonic plague in 1665 generated prints mediating all kinds of conflicts, but especially the social practices of flight and quarantine. The sudden destruction of the city within the walls by fire in 1666 was met by mapping and picturing the ruins that struggled to account for the void in the urban centre. My dissertation concludes with a series of unique prints which represent an ephemeral city built on the in-between space of the frozen Thames. This unexpected suspension of the everyday rhythms of London led to its festive re-imagining. In conclusion, I address the significance of the location of both print and the coffeehouse at the very centre of this urban space. / Arts, Faculty of / Art History, Visual Art and Theory, Department of / Graduate

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