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.
Format: Hardback
CONTRIBUTORS: J. Barry
EAN: 9781137378934
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 352 g
HEIGHT: 216 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED: 2013-11-19
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GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / Social History, RELIGION / History
WIDTH: 140 cm
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Book Themes:
United Kingdom, Great Britain, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Social and cultural history, Western philosophy: Enlightenment, Occult studies
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).
