HIST 421 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: True Cross, Barbarian Kingdoms, Pope Gregory Viii
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Lecture 3 - magic in the early middle ages. Period from the 5th century to around 1000. There is a demonization of practices that involve supernatural powers. Things that were accepted like finding magic that augustan used of this sort like astr ended up being condemned as the work of demons. A factor in this development was christianity and that christian leaders claimed sol to supernatural power. Everything that was good and happened through supernatural means happened through. Christian god or his agents - the saints or early christian leaders. Anything done through any other agencies was bad and done by demons. Greater simplicity to a degree about the supernatural world. Christians tended to share to a degree the same world view as their pagan predecessor contemporaries and felt that there really were supernatural forces in the world. They needed to divide this into the good forces and the demons. Christian leaders recognized people did expect things from supernatural forces/beings.
