Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire
Al-Saʻdī's Taʼrīkh al-sūdān down to 1613, and other contemporary documents
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Contributions
- Hunwick, John O. - Contributor
Publication
2003 - Brill, Leiden
Language
English
Word Count
103,500 words, Guess
Page Count
414 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3706217M
- ISBN-109004125604
- OCLC Control Number54465115
- OCLC Control Number50738245
- OCLC Control Numbertimbuktusonghaye0000sadi
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2003276229
- LibraryThing309594
- Goodreads968274
Classifications
- DDC966.23
- LCCDT532.2 .S214213 2003
Description
"This collection of sixteen essays deals with the role of magic, religion and witchcraft in European culture, 1450-1650, and the critical role of the visual in that culture. It covers the relationship of humanism and magic; the intersection of religious ritual, orthodoxy and power; the discursive links between the visual language of witchcraft and contemporary anxieties about sexuality and savagery. The introductory chapter urges us to exorcise our tendency to reduce historical experiences of the demonic to forms of unreason created in a distant past. Only then can we understand the role of the demonic in our historical definition of the self and the other. Richly illustrated with 112 images, the book will interest historians and art historians."--BOOK JACKET.
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