The decline of magic : Britain in the Enlightenment /

A new history which overturns the received wisdom that science displaced magic in Enlightenment Britain In early modern Britain, belief in prophecies, omens, ghosts, apparitions and fairies was commonplace. Among both educated and ordinary people the absolute existence of a spiritual world was taken...

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Auteur principal: Hunter, Michael, 1949- (Auteur)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Langue:anglais
Publié: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
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