I found this a generous, kind and sympathetic review of my book. If I take up any of the points Ronald Hutton makes, it is in the hope of letting still more discussion on witchcraft ensue – throwing more into the charmed pot – rather than with the aim of wishing him ill. Indeed, weContinue reading “Response to Review no. 16”
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The Lancashire Witches: Histories and Stories
This volume is based on a conference held in April 1999, and it is the first time in English witchcraft studies that a single group of cases has been taken as subject of such a volume. This is an excellent idea, not only because the complex truth about the witchcraft beliefs of early modern BritainContinue reading “The Lancashire Witches: Histories and Stories”
Review Article: Narratives of Folk England
We have never been less interested in the details of history than we are today, and we have never been more committed to a weak and often reductive view of a romanticized past. In different ways, both these books address the fading of historical specificity from consciousness and its consequences, and in different ways bothContinue reading “Review Article: Narratives of Folk England”