Witch, Warlock, and Magician

Witch, Warlock, and Magician

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Adams, W. H. Davenport
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The journalist and author W. H. Davenport Adams (1828–91) established a reputation for himself as a popular science writer, translator and lexicographer. He also wrote several children's books. In this 1889 work, Adams gives a general introduction to alchemy in Europe and traces the development of magic and alchemy in England from the fourteenth century onwards. Initially the disciplines were persecuted by the Church and met with 'the prejudice of the vulgar', languishing throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In Book 1 Adams portrays the English 'magicians' Roger Bacon, whom he considers to have been ahead of his contemporaries; John Dee and William Lilly, astrologists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, respectively; and the English Rosicrucians. Book 2 is a historical account of witchcraft in England and Scotland, from the middle ages to the witch trials of the seventeenth century, and includes a chapter on witchcraft in literature.
EAN 9781108044431
ISBN 1108044433
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Publication date February 16, 2012
Pages 442
Language English
Dimensions 216 x 140 x 25
Country United Kingdom
Authors Adams, W. H. Davenport
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises
Series Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge