Raising Spirits - How a Conjuror''s Tale Was Transmitted Across the Enlightenment

Informationen zum 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). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

List of contents

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

Product details

• Authors: J Barry, J. Barry, Jonathan Barry
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.11.2013
• EAN: 9781137378934
• ISBN: 978-1-137-37893-4
• No. of pages: 146
• Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic; Palgrave Historical Studies in; Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic; Palgrave Historical Studies in
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; C, Cultural History, History, European History, Social History, comparative religion, Social & cultural history, History of Religion, History, Modern, Civilization—History, Palgrave History Collection, Modern History, History of Britain and Ireland, Great Britain—History, Religion—History, Religions