Tabitha Stanmore

Cunning Folk

Life in the Era of Practical Magic

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A vibrant look at an unsettled and strangely familiar time that overturns our assumptions about the history of magic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury USA
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 159mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9781639730537
• ISBN-10: 1639730532
• Artikelnr.: 68585432

Autorenporträt

Tabitha Stanmore, PhD, is a specialist in medieval and early modern magic. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Exeter, UK, the first university to offer a master's degree in occult history. She has been interviewed on BBC Radio and TV. Her monograph, Love Spells and Lost Treasure, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. Cunning Folk is her first book for general readers.

Rezensionen

This is a brilliant book, written with wit and vigour, in which Tabitha Stanmore explores the pre-modern places where magic was real, offering not only practical solutions for ordinary problems but a way of feeling about the world, an emotional relationship between anxious humans, cosmic forces, and the mundane mysteries of their lives Malcolm Gaskill, author of The Ruin of All Witches

With hundreds of colorful incidents drawn from legal records, court chronicles and contemporary accounts, Stanmore hopscotches through history, exploring the uses to which cunning folk were put.