Raising Spirits: How a Conjurors Tale Was Transmitted across the Enlightenment
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Raising Spirits: How a Conjurors Tale Was Transmitted across the Enlightenment
By (Author) J. Barry
Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Pivot
19th November 2013
United Kingdom
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
European history
History of religion
History
Comparative religion
306.0941
Physical Properties
Hardback
146
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
352g
Description
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.
Author Bio
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).
