Topics include the decline of the witchcraft trials and the role of witchcraft and magic in enlightenment, romantic, and liberal thought.
In this text are surveys of the social role of witchcraft in European communities, as well as the full treatment of Victorian supernaturalism and of the importance of witchcraft and magic as topics of debate among intellectuals and other writers.'
“"Reminds readers of the extent to which science, reason, and skepticism failed to destroy the realm of arcane arts and nightmares."--History”
"Although the volumes are intended mainly for scholars, there is much in them to interest the common reader."--New Yorker
Bengt Ankarloo is Professor of History at Lund University, Sweden. Stuart Clark is Professor of History at the University of Wales, Swansea.
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