[A] richly illustrated collection ... readable and compelling ... this ambitious project presents a helpful, visually stimulating contribution that should find a home as supplemental reading material in relevant undergraduate courses.

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Owen Davies is Professor of Social History at the University of Hertfordshire. He has written extensively on the history of magic, witchcraft, ghosts, and popular medicine, including The Haunted: A Social History of Ghosts (2007), Grimoires: A History of Magic Books (2009), Paganism: A Very Short Introduction (2011), Magic: A Very Short Introduction (2012), and most recently America Bewitched: The Story of Witchcraft after Salem (2013).

Klappentext

The 4000-year story of witchcraft and magic - from the ancient world to Harry Potter... and beyond...

Inhalt

• Editor's Foreword

• 1: Peter Maxwell-Stuart: Magic in the Ancient World

• 2: Sophie Page: Medieval Magic

• 3: James Sharpe: The Demonologists

• 4: Rita Voltmer: The Witch Trials

• 5: Charles Zika: The Witch and Magician in European Art

• 6: Owen Davies: The World of Popular Magic

• 7: Owen Davies: The Rise of Modern Magic

• 8: Robert J. Wallis: Witchcraft and Magic in the Age of Anthropology

• 9: Willem de Blécourt: Witches on Screen

• Further Reading

• Picture acknowledgements

• Index