On several occasions, particularly on the periphery of the Habsburg Empire during the 17th and 18th centuries, dead people were suspected of being revenants or vampires, and consequently dug up and destroyed. Some contemporary authors named this phenomenon Magia Posthuma. This blog is dedicated to understanding what happened and why.
Friday, 15 August 2008
2009 conference - now in English
Just a few words in English this time on the invitation from Kakanien Revisited to a conference on July 3-4 2009 at the Institute for East European History of the Vienna University, Spitalgasse 2. The topic of the conference is Vampirism and magia posthuma in the discourse of the Habsburg monarchy in the 18th and 19th centuries. Suggestions for themes and topics should be communicated by September 30th to usha.reber@kakanien.ac.at and christoph.augustynowicz@univie.ac.at.
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Can anyone attend the conference?
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