Vampires, Revenant Souls, and Objects of Healing : Religious Remedies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Czech Lands
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| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Historical Studies on Central Europe |
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| Web | https://ojs.elte.hu/hsce/article/view/7198/6157 |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.47074/HSCE.2023-2.02 |
| Keywords | religious healing; miraculous images; apparitions; purgatory; vampires; Czech lands; seventeenth and eighteenth century |
| Description | This study searches for the characteristic features of religious healing in three phenomena of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: veneration of miraculous images, apparitions from Purgatory, and vampire incidences. All the examples originate from the Czech lands, and all were in some way related to the Catholic renewal or strengthening the Catholic faith in this region. The study reveals that, however theologically sensitive they might have been, the practices analyzed were apparently encouraged by the clergy and the social elites in the local communities, therefore they can hardly be associated only with the so-called popular piety of the rural folk. |
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