The Decline of Magic: Britain in the Enlightenment by Michael Hunter

The Decline of Magic: Britain in the Enlightenment

Michael Hunter

288 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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A new history which overturns the received wisdom that science displaced magic in Enlightenment BritainIn early modern Britain, belief in prophecies, omens, ghosts, apparitions and fairies was commonplace. Among both educated and ordinary people t...

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