John Callow (UK University of Suffolk)

Embracing the Darkness

A Cultural History of Witchcraft

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Produktbeschreibung

Sheds light on the world of the witch, mage and necromancer. This work takes us into a shadowy landscape where, in an age before modern drugs, the onset of sudden illness was readily explained by malevolent spellcasting. It presents an account of this aspect of the western cultural experience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: I.B.Tauris
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 431972
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 161mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 619g
• ISBN-13: 9781845114695
• ISBN-10: 1845114698
• Artikelnr.: 22711052

Autorenporträt

John Callow is a Research Fellow in History at Lancaster University and Director of the Marx Memorial Library in London. He is the author of The Making of King James II , of King in Exile: James II as Warrior, King and Saint , and - with Geoffrey Scarre - of Witchcraft and Magic in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Europe.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
The Figure of the Witch
Out of the Shadows
From Delusion to Demonic Pact
Patterns of Belief 1: The Hedge-witch, the Healer and the Cunning Man
Patterns of Belief 2: The Alchemist, the Necromancer and the Mage
The Witch Hunters
Women and Witchcraft
The Nightmare Given Form
'A Thing Grown Most Common': Crisis and Conformity
The Decline of Belief?
The Witch and the Children
The Witch as Muse
Old Magic in the New World
Conclusion: The Freedom to Dream
Bibliography
Index

Rezensionen

Its eccentric breadth and listless weirdness will appeal to any curious reader. Times Literary Supplement