Name: Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic (en Inglés)
Price: 112.48 PEN
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Author: Stanmore, Tabitha
ISBN: 9781639730537

portada Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Tabitha Stanmore

Editorial

Bloomsbury Publishing

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

272

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

21.0 x 14.0 x 2.5 cm

Peso

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9781639730537

Categorías

Europa
Historia de la edad media
Magia, alquimia y pensamiento hermético
Magia, encantamientos y alquimia

Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic (en Inglés)

Tabitha Stanmore (Autor) · Bloomsbury Publishing · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic (en Inglés)"

A vibrant look at an unsettled and strangely familiar time that overturns our assumptions about the history of magic. Imagine: it's the year 1600 and you've lost your precious silver spoons, or maybe they've been stolen. Perhaps your child has a fever. Or you're facing a trial. Maybe you're looking for love or escaping a husband. What do you do? In medieval and early modern Europe, your first port of call might have been cunning folk: practitioners of "service magic." Neither feared (like witches), nor venerated (like saints), they were essential to daily life. For people across ages, genders, and social ranks, practical magic was a cherished resource for navigating life's many challenges. In historian Tabitha Stanmore's beguiling account, we meet lovelorn widows, dissolute nobles, selfless healers, and renegade monks. We listen in on Queen Elizabeth I's astrology readings and track treasure hunters trying to unearth buried gold without upsetting the fairies that guard it. Much like us, premodern people lived in a bewildering world, buffeted by forces beyond their control. As Stanmore reveals, their faith in magic has much to teach about how to accommodate the irrational in our allegedly enlightened lives today. Charming in every sense, Cunning Folk is at once an immersive reconstruction of a bygone era and a thought-provoking commentary on the beauty and bafflement of being human.