Disenchantment
Sep 10, 2020
2 minutes
The Decline of Magic
Britain in the Enlightenment
Michael Hunter
Yale University Press 2020
Hb, 288pp, £25, ISBN 9780300243581
In the 17th century, belief in prophecies, omens, ghosts, apparitions and fairies was commonplace, but in the subsequent century such certainties were swept away. This
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