THE TRIUMPH OF THE MOON - A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft - Ronald Hutton (Hardback, 1999, Oxford University Press)

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THE TRIUMPH OF THE MOON - A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft - Ronald Hutton (Oxford University Press, 1999)

Out-of-Print Hardback with dustjacket. 486 pages.

Ronald Hutton is known for his colourful, provocative, and always exhaustively researched, studies on original subjects. This work is no exception: the first full-scale scholarly study of the only religion England has ever given the world, that of modern pagan witchcraft, which has now spread from English shores across four continents. Hutton examines the nature of that religion and its development, and offers a microhistory of attitudes to paganism, witchcraft, and magic in British society since 1800. Village cunning folk and Victorian ritual magicians, classicists and archaeologists, leaders of woodcraft and scouting movements, Freemasons and members of rural secret societies, all appear in the pages of this book. Also included are some of the leading figures of English literature, from the Romantic poets to W B Yeats, D H Lawrence, and Robert Graves, as well as the main personalities who have represented pagan witchcraft to the world since 1950.

Condition : Very Good. Some light edge-wear to jacket and some light shelf-wear rubbing / marks to jacket also. Book is in excellent condition. A few light marks to edge of page-block. Previous bookseller's inventory marking in pencil to first page. Otherwise clean, tight, tidy and unmarked throughout.