Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic

About the Series

The Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic series helps illuminate the lesser known or little studied aspects of the history of witchcraft and magic. It encourages the development of a broader corpus of work in other related areas of magic and the supernatural, such as angels, devils, spirits, ghosts, folk healing and divination. To help further our understanding and interest in this wider history of beliefs and practices, the series includes research that looks beyond the usual focus on Western Europe and explores their relevance and influence from the medieval to the modern period.

About the Series Editors

Owen Davies is Reader in Social History at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. He has appeared as an authority on witchcraft and magic on television and is author of numerous articles and books including Grimoires: A History of Magic Books, Witchcraft, Magic and Culture 1736-1951, A People Bewitched: Witchcraft and Magic in Nineteenth-Century Somerset and Cunning-Folk: Popular Magic in English History.

Willem de Blécourt is an historical anthropologist and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Huizinga Institute and the Meertens Institute, both in Amsterdam. His research interests include the histories of witchcraft, shape-shifting, popular culture and folk- and fairy-tales. He is the author of: (with R. Hutton and J. La Fontaine), The Athlone History of Witchcraft and Magic in Europe. Volume 6: The 20th Century and ed. (with O. Davies), Beyond the Witch Trials. Witchcraft and Magic in Enlightenment Europe.

Jonathan Barry is Associate Professor of History and Dean of Taught Programmes at the University of Exeter, where he has lectured since 1985. He has been active as a social historian of medicine, and urban and provincial culture and society in early modern England. His books include Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe (edited with Marianne Hester and Gareth Roberts) and Palgrave Advances in Witchcraft Historiography (edited with Owen Davies).

Coming Soon in the Series

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Other books by Owen Davies

The Haunted
New in paperback, out September 2009! Get £2 off the paperback edition when you order by 1st September 2009, quoting code: WHAUNTED2009a

Also available in hardback

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Palgrave Advances in Witchcraft Historiography

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