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Love Spells and Lost Treasure - Service Magic in England from the Later Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era (Hardcover, New edition)
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Love Spells and Lost Treasure - Service Magic in England from the Later Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era (Hardcover, New edition)
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Magic is ubiquitous across the world and throughout history. Yet if
witchcraft is acknowledged as a persistent presence in the medieval
and early modern eras, practical magic by contrast - performed to a
useful end for payment, and actually more common than malign
spellcasting - has been overlooked. Exploring many hundred
instances of daily magical usage, and setting these alongside a
range of imaginative and didactic literatures, Tabitha Stanmore
demonstrates the entrenched nature of 'service' magic in premodern
English society. This, she shows, was a type of spellcraft for
needs that nothing else could address: one well established by the
time of the infamous witch trials. The book explores perceptions of
magical practitioners by clients and neighbours, and the way such
magic was utilised by everyone: from lowliest labourer to highest
lord. Stanmore reveals that - even if technically illicit - magic
was for most people an accepted, even welcome, aspect of everyday
life.
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