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Cover: 9781847927316 | Cunning Folk | Life in the Era of Practical Magic | Tabitha Stanmore

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'A brilliant book, written with wit and vigour' MALCOLM GASKILL'Absolutely fascinating' IAN MORTIMERTabitha Stanmore transports us to a time when magic was used to navigate life's challenges and solve problems of both trivial and deadly importance. It's 1600 and you've lost your precious silver spoons, or maybe they've been stolen. Perhaps your child has a fever. Or you're facing trial. Maybe you're looking for love or escaping a husband. What do you do?In medieval and early modern Europe, your first port of call might have been cunning folk: practitioners of 'service magic'. Neither feared (like witches), nor venerated (like saints), these people were essential: a ubiquitous presence at a time when the supernatural was surprisingly mundane and a cherished everyday resource. We meet lovelorn widows, selfless healers and renegade monks; we listen in on Queen Elizabeth I's astrology readings and track treasure hunters who try to keep peace with fairies. Much like us, premodern people lived in bewildering times, buffeted by forces beyond their control - and their faith in magic has much to teach us about how we accommodate ourselves to the irrational in our allegedly enlightened lives today. Charming in every sense of the word, Cunning Folk is an immersive reconstruction of a bygone world and a thought-provoking commentary on the beauty and bafflement of being human.

Über den Autor

Tabitha Stanmore is a social historian
of magic and witchcraft at the University of
Exeter. She is part of the Leverhulme-funded
Seven County Witch-Hunt Project, and her
doctoral thesis was published as Love Spells
and Lost Treasure: Service Magic in England
from the Later Middle Ages to the Early Modern
Period. She has featured on Radio 3's Free
Thinking and BBC 4's Plague Fiction, and her
writing has been published in the Conversation.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Geschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Buch
Seiten:	288
ISBN-13:	9781847927316
ISBN-10:	1847927319
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Stanmore, Tabitha
Hersteller:	Vintage Publishing
Maße:	242 x 160 x 28 mm
Von/Mit:	Tabitha Stanmore
Erscheinungsdatum:	02.05.2024
Gewicht:	0,484 kg

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