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Trafficking with Demons explores how magic was perceived, practiced, and prohibited in western Europe during the first millennium CE. Through the overlapping frameworks of religion, ritual, and gender, Martha Rampton connects early Christian reckonings with pagan magic to later doctrines and dogmas. Challenging established views on the role of women in ritual magic during this period, Rampton provides a new narrative of the ways in which magic was embedded within the foundational assumptions of western European society, informing how people understood the cosmos, divinity, and their own Christian faith.
As Rampton shows, throughout the first Christian millennium, magic was thought to play a natural role within the functioning of the universe and existed within a rational cosmos hierarchically arranged according to a great chain of being. Trafficking with the demons of the lower air was the essense of magic. Interactions with those demons occurred both in highly formalistic, ritual settings and on a routine and casual basis. Rampton tracks the competition between pagan magic and Christian belief from the first century CE, when it was fiercest, through the early Middle Ages, as atavistic forms of magic mutated and found sanctuary in the daily habits of the converted peoples and new paganisms entered Europe with their own forms of magic. By the year 1000, she concludes, many forms of magic had been tamed and were, by the reckoning of the elite, essentially ineffective, as were the women who practiced it and the rituals that attended it.
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The author of an undertaking such as this, which has grown and mutated many times over two decades, accumulates a long list of people to whom she is indebted. I hesitate to start that list for fear of leaving out people who should be included, but the greater wrong would be to omit mention of so many who have inspired, advised, prodded, and supported me along the way. Thomas F. X. Noble, who was there at the inception of the project, lent his wisdom and guidance throughout the process and carefully read more than one draft of the book. My interest in magic was first piqued when I took a course from H. C. Erik Midelfort at the University of Virginia; I am indebted to him, Anne J. Schutte, and Peter S. Baker for reading a very early iteration of this work and recommending that I continue my research. I was able to do that, in part, thanks to the University of Virginia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Corcoran Department of History, which awarded me a duPont Fellowship.
I am thankful to Glenn Olsen, who was my mentor when I was a masters student at the University of Utah. I was an undergraduate when I first met Glenn, and he encouraged me to pursue a graduate degree and gave me the confidence to do it. My thanks go out to friends and colleagues who have read portions of this book or listened to more than one paper on the subject of early medieval magic. I have benefited greatly from conversations over the years with some of the finest thinkers in early medieval studies. Among those scholars are Courtney Booker, Marty Claussen, Lynda Coon, Makye de Jong, Paul Dutton, Emlyn Eisenach, Matthew Gabriele, Valerie Garver, Pat Geary, Kelly Gibson, Matthew Gillis, Eric Goldberg, Anne Latowsky, Amy Livingstone, Rob Meens, Jinty Nelson, and Andy Romig, all of whom have shown interest in my research and have engaged me at various points with questions and observations that clarified my thinking. Lynda Coon generously read a full draft of the book and gently nudged me to make changes that have resulted in a much improved final product. I am grateful to Aaron Greer, associate professor of anthropology at Pacific University, who helped guide me through the labyrinth of ritual theory.
I am also indebted to the anonymous readers of the manuscript who invested so much time in helping me work through what I wanted to say and how I might better communicate my ideas. Mahinder Kingra of Cornell University Press, and his predecessor, Peter Potter, have been marvelous to work with. Mahinder and the production team at Cornell can only be described as long-suffering, and I cannot imagine more skillful or thorough editors than I had in Eric Levy, Glenn Novak, and Karen Hwa. I wish to thank them all publicly for their patience, kindness, and sense of shared purpose in bringing this work to fruition.
Pacific University awarded me several grants that provided funds to facilitate my research. This book would never had been possible without the assistance of the stellar staff of the Tim and Cathy Tran Library at Pacific University. Their success at ferreting out rare and obscure electronic sources in this era of COVID-19 has been nothing short of miraculous.
My greatest debt of gratitude goes to my colleague and husband, Steve R. Smith, whose support at all stages of the growth of this book has been herculean and whose love has kept me going and made the whole thing seem worthwhile.
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