Raising Spirits: How a Conjuror's Tale Was Transmitted Across the Enlightenment by Barry, J.

Raising Spirits: How a Conjuror's Tale Was Transmitted Across the Enlightenment (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137378934)

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Raising Spirits: How a Conjuror's Tale Was Transmitted Across the Enlightenment by Barry, J.

Raising Spirits: How a Conjuror's Tale Was Transmitted Across the Enlightenment

$79.99
Raising Spirits: How a Conjuror's Tale Was Transmitted Across the Enlightenment by Barry, J.

Raising Spirits: How a Conjuror's Tale Was Transmitted Across the Enlightenment

$79.99
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: J. Barry
ISBN-10: 113737893X
ISBN-13: 9781137378934
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Language: English
Published: 11/19/2013
Pages: 146
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d
By J. Barry
By J. Barry
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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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