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Author Timbers, Frances, author

Title Magic and masculinity : ritual magic and gender in the early modern era / Frances Timbers
Published London : I.B. Tauris, 2014
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 217 pages) : illustrations
Series International library of historical studies ; 92
International library of historical studies ; 92.
Contents Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Conventions and Abbreviations; Illustrations; Introduction; 1. For The 'Uninitiated'; 2. Magical Masculinities; 3. Fraternity and Freemasons; 4. Scrying and Subversion: John Dee and Edward Kelley; 5. John Pordage and Passivity; 6. Swords, Satan and Sex; 7. Fairies and Female Magicians; 8. Magical Metaphors: Mary Parish and Goodwin Wharton; 9. Magic and Honour; Conclusion: Boundaries and Intersections; Notes; Bibliography; Back Cover
Summary 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 in a patriarchal society; other men, however, used the notion of magic to subvert gender ideals while still aiming to attain hegemony. Whilst women who claimed to perform magic were usually more submissive in their attempted dealings with the spirit world, some female practitioners employed magic to u
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-213) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Magic -- England -- History -- 16th century
Magic -- England -- History -- 17th century
Ritual -- England -- History -- 16th century
Ritual -- England -- History -- 17th century
Masculinity -- England -- History -- 16th century
Masculinity -- England -- History -- 17th century
Medicine -- History -- 17th century.
Magic -- history
Masculinity -- history
History, 16th Century
History, 17th Century
British & Irish history.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Parapsychology -- General.
Medicine
Masculinity
Magic
Ritual
Magie
Männlichkeit
Geschlecht
SUBJECT England https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004739
Subject England
England
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780857735881
0857735888