Raising Spirits: How a Conjurors Tale Was Transmitted across the Enlightenment

Name: Raising Spirits: How a Conjurors Tale Was Transmitted across the Enlightenment
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan
SKU: 9781137378934
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By (author): J. Barry

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. See more

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Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
Publication Date: 19 Nov 2013
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781137378934

About J. Barry

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).

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