The supernatural in early modern Scotland
This book is about other worlds and the supernatural beings, from angels to fairies, that inhabited them. It is about divination, prophecy, visions and trances. And it is about the cultural, religious, political and social uses to which people in Scotland put these supernatural themes between 1500 and 1800. The supernatural consistently provided Scots with a way of understanding topics such as the natural environment, physical and emotional wellbeing, political events and visions of past and future. In exploring the early modern supernatural, the book has much to reveal about how men and women in this period thought about, debated and experie…
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Weitere Autoren: Mcgill, Martha (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-5261-3444-8
- EAN: 9781526134448
- Produktnummer: 35420424
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'436 KB
- Abbildungen: 9 black & white illustrations
Über den Autor
Julian Goodare is Professor of History at the University of EdinburghMartha McGill is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Warwick
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