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The Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 5 - The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Paperback)
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Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 5 The Eighteenth and
Nineteenth Centuries Edited by Bengt Ankarloo and Stuart Clark
"Although the volumes are intended mainly for scholars, there is
much in them to interest the common reader."--"New Yorker" "Reminds
readers of the extent to which science, reason, and skepticism
failed to destroy the realm of arcane arts and
nightmares."--"History" The roots of European witchcraft and magic
lie in Hebrew and other ancient Near Eastern cultures and in the
Celtic, Nordic, and Germanic traditions of the Continent. For two
millennia, European folklore and ritual have been imbued with the
belief in the supernatural, yielding a rich trove of histories and
images. A series that combines traditional approaches of political,
legal, and social historians with critical syntheses of cultural
anthropology, historical psychology, and gender studies, Witchcraft
and Magic in Europe provides a modern, scholarly survey of the
supernatural beliefs of Europeans from ancient times to the present
day. Each of the six volumes in the series contains the work of
distinguished scholars chosen for their expertise in a particular
era or region. The eighteenth century saw the end of witch trials
everywhere. The authors chart the process of and reasons for the
decriminalization of witchcraft, but also challenge the widespread
assumption that Europe then became "disenchanted." Here for the
first time are surveys of the social role of witchcraft in European
communities, as well as a full treatment of Victorian
supernaturalism and of the continued importance of witchcraft and
magic as topics of debate among intellectuals and other writers.
Other volumes in the series Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: Ancient
Greece and Rome The Twentieth Century Biblical and Pagan Societies
The Middle Ages The Period of the Witch Trials Bengt Ankarloo is
Professor of History at Lund University, Sweden. Stuart Clark is
Professor of History at the University of Wales, Swansea. 1999 288
pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 ISBN 978-0-8122-1706-3 Paper $24.95s 16.50 Not
for sale outside North America and the Philippines History,
Anthropology, Religion Short copy: Topics include the decline of
the witchcraft trials and the role of witchcraft and magic in
enlightenment, romantic, and liberal thought.
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