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(0)Ronald Hutton
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xv, 360 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The witch came to prominence--and often a painful death--in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically deep. In this landmark book, Ronald Hutton traces witchcraft from the ancient world to the early-modern stake. This book sets the notorious European witch trials in the widest and deepest possible perspective and traces the major historiographical developments of witchcraft. Hutton, a renowned expert...
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
xv, 486 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Ronald Hutton is known for his colorful, provocative, and always exhaustively researched studies on original subjects. This work is no exception: the first full-scale scholarly study of the only religion England has ever given the world, that of modern pagan witchcraft, which has now spread from English shores across four continents. Hutton examines the nature of that religion and its development, and offers a microhistory of attitudes to paganism,...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xvi, 480 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Britain's pagan past, with its astonishing number and variety of mysterious monuments, atmospheric sites, enigmatic artefacts, bloodthirsty legends and cryptic inscriptions, has always enthralled and perplexed us. 'Pagan Britain' is a history of religious beliefs from the Old Stone Age to the coming of Christianity. This ambitious book integrates the latest evidence to survey our transformed - and transforming - understanding of early religious behaviour;...