'Enchanted Europe' offers a comprehensive account of Europe's long, complex relationship with its own folklore & popular religion. From debates over the efficacy of charms & spells, to belief in fairies & demons, Euan Cameron constructs a compelling narrative of the rise & fall of 'superstition' in the European mind.

• Introduction


• Part 1: Discerning and Controlling Invisible Forces: The Image of 'Superstition' in the Literature


• 1: The Problems of Pre-Modern Life


• 2: A Densely Populated Universe


• 3: Helpful Performances: The Uses of Ritual


• 4: Insight and Foresight: Techniques of Divination


• Part 2: The Learned Response to Superstitions in the Middle Ages: Angels and Demons


• 5: The Patristic and Early Medieval Heritage


• 6: Scholastic Demonology in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries


• 7: The Demonological Reading of Superstitions in the Late Middle Ages: Areas of Consensus


• 8: The Demonological Reading of Superstitions in the Late Middle Ages: Areas of Difference and Disagreement


• 9: The pastoral use of the scholastic critique of superstitions


• Part 3: Superstitions in Controversy: Renaissance and Reformations


• 10: Some Renaissance Christian Humanists and 'Superstition'


• 11: Magic, the Fallen World, and Fallen Humanity: Martin Luther on the devil and superstitions


• 12: Prodigies, Providences and Possession: the 16th-century Protestant Context


• 13: The Protestant Critique of Consecrations: Catholicism as Superstition


• 14: The Protestant Doctrine of Providence and the Transformation of the Devil


• 15: Reformed Catholicism: Purifying Sources, Defending Traditions


• Part 4: The Cosmos changes shape: Superstition is re-defined


• 16: Demonology becomes an open subject in the 17th century


• 17: Defending the 'invisible world': the campaign against 'Saducism'


• 18: Towards the Enlightenment

Euan Cameron received his B.A. and D.Phil. degrees from Oxford University. He was a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford from 1979 to 1986, and a member of the Department of History of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne from 1985 to 2002. Since 2002 he has been Henry Luce III Professor of Reformation Church History at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where he has also served as Vice-President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty. He is a member of the departments of Religion and History at Columbia University.