Beschreibung:
This book addresses magical ideas and practices in early modern Norway. It examines a large corpus of Norwegian manuscripts from 1650-1850 commonly called Black Books which contained a mixture of recipes on medicine, magic, and art.
Traces conceptual ideas of knowledge in Norway from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries
Chapter 1. Finding KnowledgeChapter 2. Knowledge CulturesChapter 3. Making KnowledgeChapter 4. Attributing KnowledgeChapter 5. Indentifying KnowledgeChapter 6. Situating KnowledgeChapter 7. Instructing KnowledgeChapter 8. Organising KnowledgeChapter 9: Conceptualising Knowledge