Overview

Ronald Hutton is known for his colourful and provocative writings on original subjects. 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. Hutton examines the nature of that religion and its development, and offers a microhistory of attitudes to paganism, witchcraft, and magic in British society since 1800. 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. We also find some of the leading of figures of English literature, from the Romantic poets to W.B. Yeats, D.H. Lawrence, and Robert Graves, as well as the main personalities who have represented pagan witchcraft to the world since 1950. Densely researched, Triumph of the Moon presents an authoritative insight into a hitherto little-known aspect of modern social history.

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`Hutton's professional expertise shows paganism in a new light' Katrina Dixon The Scotman, 24/02/01 `this work ... makes for excellent reading. Hutton's extensive scholarship allows him to make and clarify connections between people and movements in recent centuries.' Northern Earth, No.83.

<br> An excellent reference edition....I highly recommend it. --Weekly Alibi<br> Hutton uses his historical skills to tease apart some of the themes in this popular rural romanticism, and to locate their purely modern origin. --Times Literary Supplement, UK<br> Hutton's book is excellent... --Times Literary Supplement<br> Hutton has synthesized a huge body of sources, and woven together a fascinating narrative with supreme skill. The reader is sure to be gripped by the wonderful cast of characters that he assembles...Hutton shows us that paganism is a matter of interest not only for the classicist and archeologist, but for the modern historian as well. In doing so his Triumph of the Moon proves to be a triumph of cultural history. --Owen Davies, History Today (UK, Vol. 50 No. 3<br>

An excellent reference edition....I highly recommend it. --Weekly Alibi<br> Hutton uses his historical skills to tease apart some of the themes in this popular rural romanticism, and to locate their purely modern origin. --Times Literary Supplement, UK<br> Hutton's book is excellent... --Times Literary Supplement<br> Hutton has synthesized a huge body of sources, and woven together a fascinating narrative with supreme skill. The reader is sure to be gripped by the wonderful cast of characters that he assembles...Hutton shows us that paganism is a matter of interest not only for the classicist and archeologist, but for the modern historian as well. In doing so his Triumph of the Moon proves to be a triumph of cultural history. --Owen Davies, History Today (UK, Vol. 50 No. 3<br>

<br> An excellent reference edition....I highly recommend it. --Weekly Alibi<p><br> Hutton uses his historical skills to tease apart some of the themes in this popular rural romanticism, and to locate their purely modern origin. --Times Literary Supplement, UK<p><br> Hutton's book is excellent... --Times Literary Supplement<p><br> Hutton has synthesized a huge body of sources, and woven together a fascinating narrative with supreme skill. The reader is sure to be gripped by the wonderful cast of characters that he assembles...Hutton shows us that paganism is a matter of interest not only for the classicist and archeologist, but for the modern historian as well. In doing so his Triumph of the Moon proves to be a triumph of cultural history. --Owen Davies, History Today (UK, Vol. 50 No. 3<p><br>

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Ronald Hutton is Professor of History at Bristol University.

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