The Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western CultureCharlotte F. Otten Syracuse University Press, 1986 - 337 páginas Our understanding of lycanthropy is limited by our association of it with contemporary portrayals of werewolves in horror films and gothic fiction. No rational person today believes that a human being can literally be metamorphosed into a wolf; therefore, in the absence of an historical context, the study of werewolves can appear to be a wayward pursuit of the perversely irrational and the sensational. This Reader provides the historical context Drawing on primary sources, it is a comprehensive survey of all aspects of lycanthropy, with a focus on the medieval and Renaissance periods. Lycanthropes were on trial in the courtrooms of Europe, and on examination in medical offices and mental hospitals; they were the objects of communal fear and pity, and the subjects of sermons and philosophical treatises. In the Introduction to the Reader, Charlotte Otten shows that the study of lycanthropy uncovers basic issues in human life the significance of violence and criminality, the role of the demonic in aberrant behavior, and ultimately the nature of good and evil The implications for modern life are immediately apparent. The Reader is divided into six sections ( 1) Medical Cases, Diagnoses, Descriptions; (2) Trial Records, Historical Accounts, Sightings; (3) Philosophical and Theological Approaches to Metamorphosis; ( 4) Critical Essays on Lycanthropy (Anthropology, History, and Medicine); (5) Myths and Legends; and (6) Allegory . Each section has an introduction that summarizes and interprets the materials. |
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... theory of humors , a theory that is rooted in the writings of the physicians Hip- pocrates ( 460-377 BC ) and Galen ( AD 129-200 ) . The composition of the human body is viewed in terms of the four elements of the cosmos : earth , air ...
... theory of humors , a theory that is rooted in the writings of the physicians Hip- pocrates ( 460-377 BC ) and Galen ( AD 129-200 ) . The composition of the human body is viewed in terms of the four elements of the cosmos : earth , air ...
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... theory . An avid reader in the medical literature of aberrant behavior , he returned again and again to the humoral theory to account for pathological states : This melancholike humor ( as the best physicians affirme ) is the cause of ...
... theory . An avid reader in the medical literature of aberrant behavior , he returned again and again to the humoral theory to account for pathological states : This melancholike humor ( as the best physicians affirme ) is the cause of ...
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... theory was being dramatically altered . In the Middle Ages medical facts , while they may have been used to overthrow specific diagnoses , always confirmed medical theory in general . In a manner similar to that de- scribed for the ...
... theory was being dramatically altered . In the Middle Ages medical facts , while they may have been used to overthrow specific diagnoses , always confirmed medical theory in general . In a manner similar to that de- scribed for the ...
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A Case of Lycanthropy | 31 |
Robert Bayfield | 47 |
A Wolf Which Conversed with a Priest | 57 |
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