The Decline of Magic: Britain in the Enlightenment

by Michael Hunter

Book Overview

A new history that overturns the received wisdom that science displaced magic in Enlightenment Britain--named a Best Book of 2020 by the Financial Times

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 for granted. Yet in the eighteenth century such certainties were swept away. Credit...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300260954
• ISBN13: 9780300260953
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.7"