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Popular Religion in Late Saxon England: Elf Charms in Context (Paperback)

by Karen Louise Jolly (Author) "Consider the following ceremony for blessing the fields, found on a few folios from the late tenth or early eleventh century, and ponder the contexts..." (more)
Key Phrases: housel dish, elf charms, elf disease, Locating the Charms, The Late Saxon Religious Environment, Middle Ages (more...)

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Paperback: 264 pages
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (February 28, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0807845655
ISBN-13: 978-0807845653
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 13.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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Consider the following ceremony for blessing the fields, found on a few folios from the late tenth or early eleventh century, and ponder the contexts in which it was developed, performed, and written. Read the first page

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housel dish, elf charms, elf disease, flying venom, charm remedies, twelve masses, lent disease, middle practices, medical manuscripts, religion populaire, nine herbs, parochial system, formal religion, classical medicine, formal church, popular religion, medical remedies, conversion events, spiritual agencies, liturgical elements, spiritual ills

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Locating the Charms, The Late Saxon Religious Environment, Middle Ages, Domesday Book, Field Remedy, Anglo-Saxon England, Anglo-Saxon Herbal, East Anglia, Anglo-Saxon Christian, God Almighty, King Alfred, Gregory of Tours, Lay of the Nine Herbs, Bald's Leechbook, Handbook of Byrhtferth, Jesus Christ, Bede's Ecclesiastical History, Leofric Missal, Nancy Hulbirt, Penitential of Egbert, Trinity College

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The Implications of Literacy by Brian Stock in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
Domesday Book (Penguin Classic): A Complete Translation (Penguin Classics) by G. Martin in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent and needed scholarship, November 7, 1999

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Karen Jolly has produced a wonderful source of information on Anglo-Saxon charms. She makes a powerful case for the charms as elements of Anglo-Saxon popular religion, and explodes many of the myths of a pagan/Christian dichotomy that flooded the field during the age of patristic readings, and that have returned under the guise of neo-paganism in our own popular culture. One cannot claim to be a scholar of the Anglo-Saxon charms without having read this book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Sure to be a classic, February 8, 2009

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In this work, Karen Jolly uses the Elf Charms from the Lacnunga and Bald's Leechbook as a window into popular religion in late Anglo-Saxon England, The book provides a great deal of information on the elf-charms themselves, but its significance goes well beyond that.

The full value of Jolly's work is found through the way she explores Anglo-Saxon popular religion, the process of conversion to Christianity, and tensions between formal and popular religion, and the tensions between magical and religious elements. This is a far more important work than the title suggests, and I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in Anglo-Saxon times.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A very interesting book.... keeps you turning pages, December 31, 1996

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the book is great, you see, cause it's informative and incredibly detailed. It's obvious much work went into the book, and that much research was done. The book, however, isn't for those just starting out in the field of charms and magic... you should have a little background before reading the book. It's more for the historical reader then just any plain person... details on spells are also found in the book. Just plain great

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