Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Enlightenment

ISBN-13: 9780367502768 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 204 str.

Opis

Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Enlightenment argues for the centrality of magical practices and ideas throughout the long eighteenth-century.

Recenzje

'The shadow side of the Enlightenment is illuminated in this fascinating collection of studies on the survival of magical beliefs and practices into the 18^th C., from German ghosts, Hungarian exorcisms, and Irish fortune tellers to natural magic, astrology and a proposed Ecole de magie for Paris in the age of Voltaire.'

Mary O'Neil, University of Washington, US

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Michael R. Lynn is Professor of History at Purdue University Northwest. He has published Popular Science and Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France (2006), The Sublime Invention: Ballooning in Europe, 1783–1820 (2010), and "The Curious Science: Chiromancy in Early Modern France" (2018). He is currently working on a monograph analyzing the culture and practice of divination in Enlightenment France.