Editor's Foreword
1: Peter Maxwell-Stuart: Magic in the Ancient World
2: Sophie Page: Medieval Magic
3: James Sharpe: The Demonologists
4: Rita Voltmer: The Witch Trials
5: Charles Zika: The Witch and Magician in European Art
6: Owen Davies: The World of Popular Magic
7: Owen Davies: The Rise of Modern Magic
8: Robert J. Wallis: Witchcraft and Magic in the Age of
Anthropology
9: Willem de Blécourt: Witches on Screen
Further Reading
Picture acknowledgements
Index
Owen Davies is Professor of Social History at the University of
Hertfordshire. He has written extensively on the history of magic,
witchcraft, ghosts, and popular medicine, including The Haunted: A
Social History of Ghosts (2007), Grimoires: A History of Magic
Books (2009), Paganism: A Very Short Introduction (2011), Magic: A
Very Short Introduction (2012), and most recently America
Bewitched: The Story of Witchcraft after
Salem(2013).
An absorbing and illuminating study... Owen Davies succeeds in
delivering an excellent, extremely useful work.
*Clive Prince, Magonia Review*
Another quality book from Oxford University Press ... beautifully
and informatively illustrated ... a goldmine for anyone looking for
information on witchcraft and magic and perhaps those looking for
inspiration and some unusual little fact or nugget if they want to
dabble in some fiction involving witches or magicians, dark or
otherwise.
*Ian Hunter, Concatenation*
The breadth of knowledge shown here is impressive ... It informs,
shocks, repulses and entertains ... The colour plates in the book
are in turn sumptuous, beautiful and horrific a scholarly and
impressive work
*On Magazine (Yorkshire)*
If you are looking for a book about the history of witchcraft that
is comprehensive and impeccably researched, but also well written
and fascinating to read, then the new The Oxford Illustrated
History of Witchcraft and Magic is what you should pop out and buy
... The illustrations, which include colour plates, really add to
the book. As a practising witch myself, a photograph of what an
ancient magical item or spell really looks like is more use than
just a description.
*Bad Witch*
[A] richly illustrated collection ... readable and compelling ...
this ambitious project presents a helpful, visually stimulating
contribution that should find a home as supplemental reading
material in relevant undergraduate courses.
*Jodie Ann Vann, Nova Religio*
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