Raising Spirits

How a Conjuror’s Tale Was Transmitted across the Enlightenment

AvJ. Barry

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

Del i serien Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic

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Beskrivning

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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-11-19
Mått:140 x 216 x 16 mm
Vikt:346 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
Antal sidor:146
Upplaga:2013
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137378934

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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).

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Frontispiece 1. Introduction 2. Thomas Perks and his Circle 3. Arthur Bedford and his Circle 4. The Second Phase: Bristol and London 1760-79 5. Evangelical Publishing 6. Astrologers 7. The Nineteenth Century: Medicine, Spiritualism and Christianity 8. Conclusion 9. Appendix Select Bibliography