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Magic Tales and Fairy Tale Magic

From Ancient Egypt to the Italian Renaissance

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. Ruth B. Bottigheimer

    1. Stony Brook University, USA

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic (PHSWM)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Tales, Magic, and Fairy Tales

    • Ruth B. Bottigheimer
    Pages 1-10

  3. Egyptian, Greek, and Roman Magic Tales

    • Ruth B. Bottigheimer
    Pages 11-31

  4. Jewish Magic Tales

    • Ruth B. Bottigheimer
    Pages 32-63

  5. Magic Tales in Medieval Christian Europe

    • Ruth B. Bottigheimer
    Pages 64-83

  6. Magic Tales in the Muslim Middle Ages

    • Ruth B. Bottigheimer
    Pages 84-120

  7. Magic at Court and on the Piazza

    • Ruth B. Bottigheimer
    Pages 121-147

  8. The Problematics of Magic on the Threshold of Fairy Tale Magic: Straparola’s Early Modern Pleasant Nights

    • Ruth B. Bottigheimer
    Pages 148-167

  9. The Evolution of Fairy Tale Magic from Straparola to Basile and Perrault

    • Ruth B. Bottigheimer
    Pages 168-182

  10. Afterword

    • Ruth B. Bottigheimer
    Pages 183-184

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 185-208
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About this book

This book examines magic's generally maleficent effect on humans from ancient Egypt through the Middle Ages, including tales from classical mythology, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim cultures. It shows that certain magical motifs lived on from age to age, but that it took until the Italian Renaissance for magic tales to become fairy tales.

Reviews

“Thought provoking and wide ranging, Bottigheimer’s volume should be of significant interest for a variety of different disciplines, from literary studies to history of ideas. … This is an interesting and serious volume that deserves our attention and respect … .” (Armando Maggi, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 68 (4), 2015)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Stony Brook University, USA

    Ruth B. Bottigheimer

About the author

Ruth B. Bottigheimer is Research Professor at Stony Brook University, USA, and author of many books on the history of magic, including Grimms' Bad Girls and Bold Boys: The Moral and Social Vision of the Tales (1987), The Bible for Children from the Age of Gutenberg to the Present (1996), Fairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition (2002), and Fairy Tales: A New History (2009). She has had CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title commendations on three occasions and won the Best Book on Children's Literature 1996 award from Children's Literature Association. She is Life Fellow of Clare Hall Cambridge, UK and Visiting Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford, UK.

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