Raising Spirits

How a Conjuror's Tale Was Transmitted across the Enlightenment
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-349-47851-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 146 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barry, J.

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).