The Triumph of the Moon by Ronald Hutton

Lawrence, and Robert Graves, as well as the main personalities who have represented pagan witchcraft to the world since 1950.ĭensely researched, Triumph of the Moon presents an authoritative insight into a hitherto little-known aspect of modern social history. We also find some of the leading of figures of English literature, from the Romantic poets toW.B. Its pages reveal village cunning folk, Victorian ritual magicians, classicists and archaeologists, leaders of woodcraft and scouting movements, Freemasons, and members of rural secret societies. Hutton examines the nature of that religion and its development, and offers a microhistory of attitudes to paganism, witchcraft, and magic in British societysince 1800. This work is no exception: for 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. This edition incorporates all of the new research carried out into the subject by the author, and by others who have often been inspired by this book, during the twenty years since it was first published.Ronald Hutton is known for his colourful and provocative writings on original subjects. Taken throughout to distinguish fact from fantasy, in a manner not hitherto applied to most of the stories involved.Ĭonsistently densely researched, Triumph of the Moon presents an authoritative insight into an aspect of modern cultural history which has attracted sensational publicity but has hitherto been little understood. The material is by its very nature often sensational, and care is

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Ronald Hutton examines the nature of that religion and its development, and offers a history of attitudes to witchcraft, paganism and magic in British society since 1800. This is the second, and extensively revised, edition of the first full-scale scholarly study of what is arguably the only fully-formed religion that England has ever given the world: that of modern pagan witchcraft, which has now spread from English shores across four continents.

The Triumph of the Moon by Ronald Hutton