Raising Spirits

How a Conjuror’s Tale Was Transmitted across the Enlightenment

J. Barry (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

146 Seiten

2013 | 1st ed. 2013
Palgrave Pivot (Verlag)
978-1-349-47851-4 (ISBN)

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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.

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).

Frontispiece 1. Introduction 2. Thomas Perks and his Circle 3. Arthur Bedford and his Circle 4. The Second Phase: Bristol and London 1760-79 5. Evangelical Publishing 6. Astrologers 7. The Nineteenth Century: Medicine, Spiritualism and Christianity 8. Conclusion 9. Appendix Select Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	26.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
Zusatzinfo	X, 146 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
Schlagworte	Age of Enlightenment • Bibliography • Christianity • Death • Enlightenment • Medicine • Publishing • Scepticism • Spiritualism • Transmission
ISBN-10	1-349-47851-2 / 1349478512
ISBN-13	978-1-349-47851-4 / 9781349478514
Zustand	Neuware