{"product_id":"the-supernatural-in-early-modern-scotland-9781526167149","title":"The Supernatural in Early Modern Scotland","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is about other worlds and the supernatural beings, from angels to fairies, that inhabited them. It is about divination, prophecy, visions and trances. And it is about the cultural, religious, political and social uses to which people in Scotland put these supernatural themes between 1500 and 1800. The supernatural consistently provided Scots with a way of understanding topics such as the natural environment, physical and emotional wellbeing, political events and visions of past and future. In exploring the early modern supernatural, the book has much to reveal about how men and women in this period thought about, debated and experienced the world around them. Comprising twelve chapters by an international range of scholars, \u003ci\u003eThe supernatural in early modern Scotland \u003c\/i\u003ediscusses both popular and elite understandings of the supernatural.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Exploring the supernatural in early modern Scotland – Julian Goodare and Martha McGill \u003cbr\u003e2 The elrich poems: the supernatural and the textual – Janet Hadley Williams\u003cbr\u003e3 Emotional relationships with spirit-guides in early modern Scotland – Julian Goodare\u003cbr\u003e4 Experiencing the invisible polity: trance in early modern Scotland – Georgie Blears\u003cbr\u003e5 The ninety-nine dancers of Moaness: Orkney women between the visible and invisible – Liv Helene Willumsen\u003cbr\u003e6 Angels in early modern Scotland – Martha McGill\u003cbr\u003e7 Scottish political prophecies and the crowns of Britain, 1500–1840 – Michael B. Riordan\u003cbr\u003e8 Astrology and supernatural power in early modern Scotland – Jane Ridder-Patrick\u003cbr\u003e9 Fallen spirits and divine grace: sermons and the supernatural in post-Reformation Scotland – Michelle D. Brock\u003cbr\u003e10 The uses of providence in early modern Scotland – Martha McGill and Alasdair Raffe\u003cbr\u003e11 The invention of Highland Second Sight – Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart\u003cbr\u003e12 The pagan supernatural in the Scottish Enlightenment – Felicity Loughlin\u003cbr\u003e13 Eighteenth-century Scotland and the visionary supernatural – Hamish Mathison\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041034273111,"sku":"9781526167149","price":23.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526167149.jpg?v=1750948688","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-supernatural-in-early-modern-scotland-9781526167149","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}