In place of fairies
Simon Schaffer, 2 December 1982
Stolen Lightning: The Social Theory of Magic
by Daniel O’Keefe.
Martin Robertson, 581 pp., £17.50, September 1982,0 85520 486 9 Show More
by Daniel O’Keefe.
Martin Robertson, 581 pp., £17.50, September 1982,
Scienze, Credenze Occulti, Livelli di Cultura
edited by Paola Zambelli.
Leo Olschki, 562 pp., April 1982,88 222 3069 8 Show More
edited by Paola Zambelli.
Leo Olschki, 562 pp., April 1982,
“... possession as weapons against Lutherans, atheists, Jews and subversives. Important papers by Paola Zambelli, Elisabeth Labrousse and Paolo Galluzzi indicate the ways in which propaganda was mixed with scholarship in the Renaissance interest in the occult. One of the outstanding papers at this conference was that of Peter Burke, who may stand here as ... ”