Fulfilled Request Traditions of Belief in Late Byzantine Demonology

[kosmo9854]

Hello,

If you are interested in the Hygromanteia or Byzantine magic, you will eventually stumble upon this book in a bibliography, but definitely not in person. It's hard to find; the only time I read it was by borrowing it mail-order from a library while living in Germany. However, I'm unable to find it at the moment.

• Title: Traditions of Belief in Late Byzantine Demonology
• Author: Richard P.H. Greenfield
• Publisher: Adolf M. Hakkert
• Publication Year: 1988
• ISBN: 9025609627 / 9789025609627
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: lxxxvi (86 pages of introductory material), 369 pages of main content
• Dimensions: Approximately 24 cm in height
• Language: English
• Subjects: Demonology, Exorcism, Devil, Orthodox Eastern Church, Medieval Studies, Byzantine Empire
• Library Catalog Reference: OCLC Number 22634644

If anyone has this book or is interested in borrowing it from a library, I think the community would benefit from a digital copy for posterity, since it's out of print and getting harder to find.

Thanks,
S

 

[HoldAll]

Found it on annas-archive.org:

Book – PDF - Richard P. H. Greenfield - Traditions of Belief in Late Byzantine Demonology (scan)

In this very rare book Professor Greenfield presents Byzantine occult lore, exorcism, demonology, and sorcery. One of the themes of this work is to compare "The Beliefs of the Standard Orthodox Tradition" to "Alternative [Occult] Tradition", or Byzantine magic and popular religion. Thus the book...

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[kosmo9854]

Hey, that's great!

Thank you very much Xingtian.