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Informationen zum Autor Julian Goodare is Professor of History at the University of EdinburghMartha McGill is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Warwick Klappentext This book is a collection of chapters on supernatural belief and practice in Scotland between 1500 and 1800. It deals with elite culture - from political prophecy to astrology, theology and poetic visions. And it deals with popular culture - from trances and visionary encounters with ghosts and fairies, to folkloric angels and Second Sight. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Exploring the supernatural in early modern Scotland - Julian Goodare and Martha McGill 2 The elrich poems: the supernatural and the textual - Janet Hadley Williams3 Emotional relationships with spirit-guides in early modern Scotland - Julian Goodare4 Experiencing the invisible polity: trance in early modern Scotland - Georgie Blears5 The ninety-nine dancers of Moaness: Orkney women between the visible and invisible - Liv Helene Willumsen6 Angels in early modern Scotland - Martha McGill7 Scottish political prophecies and the crowns of Britain, 1500-1840 - Michael B. Riordan8 Astrology and supernatural power in early modern Scotland - Jane Ridder-Patrick9 Fallen spirits and divine grace: sermons and the supernatural in post-Reformation Scotland - Michelle D. Brock10 The uses of providence in early modern Scotland - Martha McGill and Alasdair Raffe11 The invention of Highland Second Sight - Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart12 The pagan supernatural in the Scottish Enlightenment - Felicity Loughlin13 Eighteenth-century Scotland and the visionary supernatural - Hamish MathisonIndex
