Owen Davies

A Supernatural War

Magic, Divination, and Faith During the First World War

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How widespread belief in fortune-telling, prophecies, spirits, magic, and protective talismans gripped the battlefields and home fronts of Europe during the First World War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 146mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9780198794554
• ISBN-10: 019879455X
• Artikelnr.: 53032015

Autorenporträt

Owen Davies is Professor of Social History at the University of Hertfordshire. He has published widely on the history of witchcraft, magic, ghosts, and popular medicine, including Grimoires: A History of Magic Books (2009), Paganism: A Very Short Introduction (2011), Magic: A Very Short Introduction (2012), and America Bewitched: The Story of Witchcraft after Salem (2013), and was editor for The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction: A War Full of Wonder
2: Prophetic Times
3: Visions, Spirits, and Psychics
4: Telling Fortunes, Telling Tales
5: Battlefield Luck
6: Trench Faith and Protection
Epilogue
Notes
Index