Magic in early modern England: literature, politics, and supernatural power
"This book places early modern philosophy and political theory into conversation with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writing on magic: plays, spell books, treatises, and witch trial narratives. Reading works by Hobbes and Bacon alongside writing by necromancers and witch-hunters reveals a b...
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Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London
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| adam_text | Contents Acknowledgments Chapter 1 : The Ubiquity of Magic in Early Modern England ix 1 Chapter 2: Toward a Definition of Early Modern Magic: Four Conceptual Problems 21 Chapter 3: Magic and Materialism: Niccolo Machiavelli, Francis Bacon, and Abraham Cowley 47 Chapter 4: Magical Overreach in Robert Greene and Simon Forman 69 Chapter 5 : Illusions of Power in Doctor Faustus and Francis Bacon 85 Chapter 6: Witch Trials and Thomas Hobbes 105 Chapter 7: Margaret Cavendish and the Conquest of the Blazing World 133 Conclusion 151 Bibliography 159 Index 167 About the Author 177
ШШС Nt ЕАШши ENGLAND RECONSIDERS THE PLACE OF MAGIC AT THE FOUNDATIONS OF modernity. Through careful close reading of plays, spell books, philosophical treatises, and witch trial narratives, Andrew Moore shows us that magic was ubiquitous in early modern England. Rather than a “decline of magic,” this study traces a broad cultural fascination with supernatural power. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, poets, philosophers, jurists, and monarchs debated the reality and the morality of magic, and, by extension, the limits of human power. In this way, early modern English writing about magic was closely related to the scientific and political philosophical writing from the period, which was likewise reimag ining humanity’s relationship to nature. Moore reads Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan alongside contemporary writing by the notorious witch hunters Matthew Hopkins and John Stearne. He reminds us that Francis Bacon’s scientific works were addressed to King James I, whose own Dæmonologie insists on the reality of witchcraft. The fantastical science fiction of Mar garet Cavendish, he argues, must be understood within a tradition that includes works like Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and the peculiar autobiography of criminal astrologer Simon Forman. By considering these disparate works together, Moore reveals the centrality of magic to the early modern project.
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Contents Acknowledgments Chapter 1 : The Ubiquity of Magic in Early Modern England ix 1 Chapter 2: Toward a Definition of Early Modern Magic: Four Conceptual Problems 21 Chapter 3: Magic and Materialism: Niccolo Machiavelli, Francis Bacon, and Abraham Cowley 47 Chapter 4: Magical Overreach in Robert Greene and Simon Forman 69 Chapter 5 : Illusions of Power in Doctor Faustus and Francis Bacon 85 Chapter 6: Witch Trials and Thomas Hobbes 105 Chapter 7: Margaret Cavendish and the Conquest of the Blazing World 133 Conclusion 151 Bibliography 159 Index 167 About the Author 177
ШШС Nt ЕАШши ENGLAND RECONSIDERS THE PLACE OF MAGIC AT THE FOUNDATIONS OF modernity. Through careful close reading of plays, spell books, philosophical treatises, and witch trial narratives, Andrew Moore shows us that magic was ubiquitous in early modern England. Rather than a “decline of magic,” this study traces a broad cultural fascination with supernatural power. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, poets, philosophers, jurists, and monarchs debated the reality and the morality of magic, and, by extension, the limits of human power. In this way, early modern English writing about magic was closely related to the scientific and political philosophical writing from the period, which was likewise reimag ining humanity’s relationship to nature. Moore reads Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan alongside contemporary writing by the notorious witch hunters Matthew Hopkins and John Stearne. He reminds us that Francis Bacon’s scientific works were addressed to King James I, whose own Dæmonologie insists on the reality of witchcraft. The fantastical science fiction of Mar garet Cavendish, he argues, must be understood within a tradition that includes works like Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and the peculiar autobiography of criminal astrologer Simon Forman. By considering these disparate works together, Moore reveals the centrality of magic to the early modern project. |
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