J. Barry

Gebundenes Buch

Raising Spirits

How a Conjuror's Tale Was Transmitted Across the Enlightenment

Beschreibung

Despite supernatural scepticism, stories about spirits were regularly printed and shared throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. This case-study in the transmission of a single story (of a young gunsmith near Bristol conjuring spirits, leading to his early death) reveals both how and why successive generations found meaning in such accounts.

Autor

Jonathan Barry is Professor of Early Modern History and a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator in medical humanities at Exeter University, UK. He has published widely in urban, social, cultural, religious and medical history, including Witchcraft and Demonology in South-West England 1640-1789 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and edited many books including Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe (1996) and (with Owen Davies) Palgrave Advances in Witchcraft Historiography (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK / Palgrave Pivot / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-37893-4
• 2013 edition
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 297g
• ISBN-13: 9781137378934
• ISBN-10: 113737893X
• Artikelnr.: 40053451