Everyday Magicians
Legal Records and Magic Manuscripts from Tudor England
$57.62
- Paperback
164 pages
- Release Date
16 October 2022
Summary
Most of the women and men who practiced magic in Tudor England were not hanged or burned as witches, despite being active members of their communities. These everyday magicians responded to common human problems such as the vagaries of money, love, property, and influence, and they were essential to the smooth functioning of English society. This illuminating book tells their stories through the legal texts in which they are named and the magic books that record their practices.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780271093932 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0271093935 |
| Author: | Sharon Hubbs Wright, Frank Klaassen |
| Publisher: | Pennsylvania State University Press |
| Imprint: | Pennsylvania State University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 164 |
| Release Date: | 16 October 2022 |
| Weight: | 227g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Magic in History Sourcebooks |
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Critics Review
“The provision of these original sources is a gift to historians and their students but also to modern magicians seeking working materials, and the authors’ analyses provide genuinely new insights into the nature of late medieval and early modern English magical practice.”
—Ronald Hutton, author of The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present
About The Author
Sharon Hubbs Wright
Sharon Hubbs Wright is Professor of History at St. Thomas More College and Director of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. She is the coauthor, along with Frank Klaassen, of The Magic of Rogues: Necromancers in Early Tudor England.
Frank Klaassen is Professor of History at the University of Sakatchewan. He is the author of Making Magic in Elizabethan England: Two Early Modern Vernacular Books of Magic and the award-winning The Transformations of Magic: Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance.
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