Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Enlightenment

Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Enlightenment

Lynn, Michael R.

Taylor & Francis Ltd

03/2022

204

Dura

Inglês

9780367502775

15 a 20 dias

560

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Introduction: magic, witchcraft, and ghosts in the age of reason 1. The ghost of the Enlightenment: communication with the dead in Southwestern Germany, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 2. Invisible worlds: magic, spirits, and experience in the early Enlightenment 3. Priests in the storm: an approach on changes in ritual attitudes in eighteenth-century Hungary 4. East Anglian folk magic, folklore, and witchery in the age of reason 5. Jean-Baptiste Alliette and the Ecole de Magie in late-eighteenth century Paris 6. Fortune telling, culture, law, and gender in Ireland, c.1691-1840 7. A scientist at astrology's funeral: Richard Saunder and the Apollo Anglicanus 8. Natural magic, hermeticism, and skepticism: orientalizing chemical curiosity in eighteenth-century France 9. Afterword
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