The decline of magic : Britain in the Enlightenment /

The decline of magic : Britain in the Enlightenment /

A provocative account of the seismic shift in attitude toward the supernatural in seventeenth and eighteenth century Britain. Early modern Britain embraced many forms of the supernatural and took the absolute existence of a spiritual world for granted. Yet in the eighteenth century these certainties...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hunter, Michael, 1949- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
1600-1799
Skepticism > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Skepticism > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Occultism > Great Britain > History > 17th century.
Occultism > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Enlightenment > Great Britain.
Science and magic > History.
Faith and reason > History.
Enlightenment.
Faith and reason.
Occultism.
Science and magic.
Spiritualism.
Aufklärung.
Okkultismus.
Great Britain.
Gro€britannien.
History.

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