1st Edition
Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Enlightenment
Introduction: magic, witchcraft, and ghosts in the age of reason
Michael R. Lynn
1. The ghost of the Enlightenment: communication with the dead in Southwestern Germany, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Johannes Dillinger
2. Invisible worlds: magic, spirits, and experience in the early Enlightenment
Tricia R. Peone
3. Priests in the storm: an approach on changes in ritual attitudes in eighteenth-century Hungary
Dániel Bárth
4. East Anglian folk magic, folklore, and witchery in the age of reason
Pádraig Lawlor
5. Jean-Baptiste Alliette and the Ecole de Magie in late-eighteenth century Paris
Michael R. Lynn
6. Fortune telling, culture, law, and gender in Ireland, c.1691–1840
Andrew Sneddon
7. A scientist at astrology’s funeral: Richard Saunder and the Apollo Anglicanus
William E. Burns
8. Natural magic, hermeticism, and skepticism: orientalizing chemical curiosity in eighteenth-century France
Stéphane Van Damme
9. Afterword
Jonathan Barry
Biography
Michael R. Lynn is Professor of History at Purdue University Northwest. He has published Popular Science and Public Opinion in Eighteenth-Century France (2006), The Sublime Invention: Ballooning in Europe, 1783–1820 (2010), and "The Curious Science: Chiromancy in Early Modern France" (2018). He is currently working on a monograph analyzing the culture and practice of divination in Enlightenment France.
‘The shadow side of the Enlightenment is illuminated in this fascinating collection of studies on the survival of magical beliefs and practices into the 18th C., from German ghosts, Hungarian exorcisms, and Irish fortune tellers to natural magic, astrology and a proposed Ecole de magie for Paris in the age of Voltaire.’
Mary O'Neil, University of Washington, US
