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Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 5: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 5: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Ankarloo, Bengt
Clark, Stuart

Paperback

Series: Witchcraft and Magic in Europe (Paperback)

OccultGeneral European HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0812217063
ISBN13: 9780812217063
Publisher: Univ Of Pennsylvania Pr
Published: Oct 14 1999
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.18
Height: 1.09 Width: 6.08 Depth: 9.16
Language: English

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.

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