Binding: Hardcover
Description: Ronald Hutton is known for his colourful provocative and always exhaustively researched studies on original subjects. This work is no exception: the first full - scale scholarly study of the only religion England has ever given the world that of modern pagan witchcraft which has now spread from English shores across four continents. Hutton examines the nature of that religion and its development and offers a microhistory of attitudes to paganism witchcraft and magic in British society since 1800. Village cunning folk and Victorian ritual magicians classicists and archaeologists leaders of woodcraft and scouting movements Freemasons and members of rural secret societies all appear in the pages of this book. Also included are some of the leading figures of English literature from the Romantic poets to W B Yeats D H Lawrence and Robert Graves as well as the main personalities who have represented pagan witchcraft to the world since 1950.
Title: The Triumph Of The Moon A History Of Modern Pagan Witchcraft
Author(s): Hutton Ronald (Professor Of History Professor Of History Bristol University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198207443
Pages: 502 Pages
Publication Date: 3/16/2000
Category: Witchcraft & Wicca