This book investigates the circulation, regulation, and interpretation of magical texts, focusing on the Clavicula Salomonis (Key of Solomon), one of the most sought-after and feared books of the time.
In this Lenten devotional, let Padre Pio guide you through the profound mysteries of the faith, sharing his unique ';way of the Cross' as a spiritual father, warrior, and beloved son of God.
Medieval saints were thought to be able to provide miraculous cures for a wide variety of illnesses, and about one tenth of their miracles involved the restoration of sanity to those who had lost their minds.
A demonstration of how the Spanish Inquisition's property confiscations created a racialized economic order in colonial Cartagena de IndiasIn 1632, in the port city of Cartagena de Indias in what is now Colombia, officials of the Spanish Inquisition, having recently arrived to take up their posts, arrested Teodora de Salcedo and fifteen other women of African descent who had once been enslaved, each of whom owned a wood-framed house in one of Cartagena's rapidly changing neighborhoods.
