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The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft by Ronald Hutton (Hardcover, 2019)
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This is the second, and extensively revised, edition of the first full-scale scholarly study of what is arguably the only fully-formed religion that England has ever given the world: that of modern pagan witchcraft, which has now spread from English shores across four continents. Ronald Hutton examines the nature of that religion and its development, and offers a history of attitudes to witchcraft, paganism and magic in British society since 1800. Its pages reveal village cunning folk, Victorian ritual magicians, classicists and archaeologists, leaders of woodcraft and scouting movements, Freemasons, and members of rural secret societies. We also find 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 public world since 1950. Thriller writers like Dennis Wheatley, and films and television programmes, get similar coverage, as does tabloid journalism. The material is by its very nature often sensational, and care is taken throughout to distinguish fact from fantasy, in a manner not hitherto applied to most of the stories involved. Consistently densely researched, Triumph of the Moon presents an authoritative insight into an aspect of modern cultural history which has attracted sensational publicity but has hitherto been little understood. This edition incorporates all of the new research carried out into the subject by the author, and by others who have often been inspired by this book, during the twenty years since it was first published.Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press
ISBN-139780198827368
eBay Product ID (ePID)20046709516
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Book TitleThe Triumph of the Moon: a History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft
AuthorRonald Hutton
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicWitchcraft, History
Publication Year2019
TypeTextbook
Number of Pages544 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height242mm
Item Width159mm
Item Weight800 g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorRonald Hutton
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 02 Sep, 2020
A superb study indifferently treated by its publisher
A shame to see Hutton's usual impeccable scholarship being undermined by low quality, pulpy paper for this revised edition: It isn't even acid free. This book is the most in-depth study of Wicca we've got, and frankly I expected Oxford University Press to have given it more respect. But buy it anyway - it's quite brilliant!Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
