Magic, witchcraft, and ghosts in the Enlightenment / edited by Michael R. Lynn.

Other author Lynn, Michael R.
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Publication InfoLondon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
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SeriesRoutledge studies in the history of witchcraft, demonology and magic
Contents Introduction : magic, witchcraft, and ghosts in the Enlightenment / Michael R. Lynn -- The ghost of the Enlightenment : communication with the dead in southwestern Germany, 18th and 19th centuries / Johannes Dillinger -- Invisible worlds : magic, spirits, and experience in the early Enlightenment / Tricia Peone -- Priests in the storm : an approach on changes in ritual attitudes in eighteenth-century Hungary / D©Łniel B©Łrth -- Folk magic and folklore in Britain's age of reason / P©Łdraig Lawlor -- Jean-Baptiste Alliette and the Ecole de Magie in late-eighteenth century Paris / Michael R. Lynn -- Fortune telling, culture, law, and gender in Ireland, 1691-c1840 / Andrew Snedden -- A scientist at astrology's funeral : Richard Saunder and the Apollo Anglicanus / William E. Burns -- Natural magic, hermeticism and skepticism : Orientalizing chemical curiosity in eighteenth-century France / St©♭phane Van Damme -- Afterword / Jonathan Barry.
Abstract "Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Age of Enlightenment argues for the centrality of magical practices and ideas throughout the long eighteenth-century. With a broad chronological scope that ranges from the end of the seventeenth century into the early nineteenth century, this volume is useful for undergraduates, postgraduates, scholars as well as those with a general interest in magic, witchcraft, and spirits in the Enlightenment"-- Provided by publisher.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Magic, witchcraft, and ghosts in the Enlightenment London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022 9780367502775
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