A History of Crossroads in Early Modern Culture

by Bill Angus

Focusing on the crossroads in the early modern period, this book deals with the literature and history of the physical crossroads: it's magical and religious encounters, rituals of transformation, binding of undesirable spirits, siting of gallows, associations with music, and links to ancient cosmology. Physical crossroads have been culturally vital sites where forces human, demonic and divine were felt to converge. Crossroads have seemed to render...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474499821
• ISBN13: 9781474499828
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"