The supernatural in early modern Scotland (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Goodare, Julian; Mcgill, Martha

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is about other worlds and the supernatural beings, from angels to fairies, that inhabited them. It is about divination, prophecy, visions and trances. And it is about the cultural, religious, political and social uses to which people in Scotland put these supernatural themes between 1500 and 1800. The supernatural consistently provided Scots with a way of understanding topics such as the natural environment, physical and emotional wellbeing, political events and visions of past and future. In exploring the early modern supernatural, the book has much to reveal about how men and women in this period thought about, debated and experienced the world around them. Comprising twelve chapters by an international range of scholars, The supernatural in early modern Scotland discusses both popular and elite understandings of the supernatural.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526134448
• Artikelnr.: 60714442

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