The supernatural in early modern Scotland

Herausgeber: Goodare, Julian; Mcgill, Martha

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a collection of chapters on supernatural belief and practice in Scotland between 1500 and 1800. It deals with elite culture â from political prophecy to astrology, theology and poetic visions. And it deals with popular culture â from trances and visionary encounters with ghosts and fairies, to folkloric angels and Second Sight. -- .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781526134424
• ISBN-10: 152613442X
• Artikelnr.: 57351911

Autorenporträt

Julian Goodare is Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh Martha McGill is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Warwick

Inhaltsangabe

1 Exploring the supernatural in early modern Scotland
Julian Goodare and Martha McGill 2 The elrich poems: the supernatural and the textual
Janet Hadley Williams 3 Emotional relationships with spirit
guides in early modern Scotland
Julian Goodare 4 Experiencing the invisible polity: trance in early modern Scotland
Georgie Blears 5 The ninety
nine dancers of Moaness: Orkney women between the visible and invisible
Liv Helene Willumsen 6 Angels in early modern Scotland
Martha McGill 7 Scottish political prophecies and the crowns of Britain, 1500
1840
Michael B. Riordan 8 Astrology and supernatural power in early modern Scotland
Jane Ridder
Patrick 9 Fallen spirits and divine grace: sermons and the supernatural in post
Reformation Scotland
Michelle D. Brock 10 The uses of providence in early modern Scotland
Martha McGill and Alasdair Raffe 11 The invention of Highland Second Sight
Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart 12 The pagan supernatural in the Scottish Enlightenment
Felicity Loughlin 13 Eighteenth
century Scotland and the visionary supernatural
Hamish Mathison Index