Excising Superstition from Knowledge: August of Saxony’s Book of Healing Charms
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Excising Superstition from Knowledge : August of Saxony’s Book of Healing Charms. / Klein Kafer, Natacha.
In: KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge, Vol. 8, No. 1-2, 2024, p. 103-130.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Excising Superstition from Knowledge
T2 - August of Saxony’s Book of Healing Charms
AU - Klein Kafer, Natacha
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - This article examines how privacy allowed agents to explore unsanctioned or controversial kinds of knowledge, as exemplified by August of Saxony’s handwritten book of healing charms (1585). By looking at how Elector August of Saxony (1526–86) selected and eliminated elements of charms for all kinds of afflictions, this article analyzes how popular knowledge could be transformed in private to fit the personal beliefs and scholarly convictions of privileged practitioners. This analysis enables an understanding of how popular knowledge was transformed and translated by people in power in times of religious and political turmoil.
AB - This article examines how privacy allowed agents to explore unsanctioned or controversial kinds of knowledge, as exemplified by August of Saxony’s handwritten book of healing charms (1585). By looking at how Elector August of Saxony (1526–86) selected and eliminated elements of charms for all kinds of afflictions, this article analyzes how popular knowledge could be transformed in private to fit the personal beliefs and scholarly convictions of privileged practitioners. This analysis enables an understanding of how popular knowledge was transformed and translated by people in power in times of religious and political turmoil.
U2 - 10.1086/729575
DO - 10.1086/729575
M3 - Journal article
VL - 8
SP - 103
EP - 130
JO - Know
JF - Know
SN - 2473-599X
IS - 1-2
ER -
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