The Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland
(Paperback)
Available Formats
Publishing Details
The Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland
By (Author) Julian Goodare
Edited by Martha McGill
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
1st February 2023
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Social and cultural history
398.209411
Runner-up for Joint Runners-up of the Katharine Briggs Award 2021 2021
Physical Properties
Paperback
272
Width 156mm, Height 234mm, Spine 15mm
386g
Description
This book is about other worlds and the supernatural beings, from angels to fairies, that inhabited them.
It is about divination, prophecy, visions and trances. And it is about the cultural, religious, political and social uses to which people in Scotland put these supernatural themes between 1500 and 1800. The supernatural consistently provided Scots with a way of understanding topics such as the natural environment, physical and emotional wellbeing, political events and visions of past and future. In exploring the early modern supernatural, the book has much to reveal about how men and women in this period thought about, debated and experienced the world around them. Comprising twelve chapters by an international range of scholars, The supernatural in early modern Scotland discusses both popular and elite understandings of the supernatural.
Author Bio
Julian Goodare is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Edinburgh
Martha McGill is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Warwick
