Frances Timbers: 3 books
Magic and Masculinity
Ritual Magic and Gender in the Early Modern Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
In early modern England, the practice of ritual or ceremonial magic – the attempted communication with angels and demons – both reinforced and subverted existing concepts of gender. The majority of male magicians acted from a position of control and command commensurate with their social position...
The Magical Adventures of Mary Parish
The Occult World of Seventeenth-Century London
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Mary Parish wasn’t your ordinary seventeenth-century woman. She was a “cunning woman," who spent her time in the realm of magic, interacting with fairies, hunting for buried treasures, and communicating with the spirit world, along with her partner, the young aristocrat Goodwin Wharton. Drawing...
by Frances Timbers
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700 examines the construction of gypsy identity in England between the early sixteenth century and the end of the seventeenth century. Drawing upon previous historiography, a wealth of printed primary sources (including...