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

Inglese · Tascabile

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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

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Autori J. Barry
Editore Palgrave UK
 
Lingue Inglese
Formato Tascabile
Pubblicazione 01.01.2013
 
EAN 9781349478514
ISBN 978-1-349-47851-4
Pagine 146
Serie Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
Palgrave Historical Studies in
Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
Categoria Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie

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