For the people of early modern England, the dividing line between the natural and supernatural worlds was both negotiable and porous - particularly when it came

Without a precise separation between 'science' and 'magic', the line between the natural and supernatural worlds in early modern England was negotiable and poro

The Supernatural in Tudor and Stuart England reflects upon the boundaries between the natural and the otherworldly in early modern England as they were understo

This study overcomes the ambiguity and daunting scale of the subject of secularization by using the insights of anthropology and sociology, and by examining an

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