A fully updated new edition of Ronald Hutton's classic history of modern pagan witchcraft, published to mark the twentieth anniversary of this landmark text. Triumph of the Moon presents an authoritative insight into an aspect of modern...

Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in Europe's history The witch came to prominence-and often a painful death-in early modern Europe, yet her origins...

A fully updated new edition of Ronald Hutton's classic work on the history of modern pagan witchcraft. von Hutton, Ronald

In this riveting account, renowned scholar Ronald Hutton explores the history of deity-like figures in Christian Europe. Drawing on anthropology, archaeology, literature, and history, Hutton shows how hags, witches, the fairy queen, and...

Oliver Cromwell, with his complex and contradictory character, is one of the great figures of history. Untangling facts from fiction, Ronald Hutton reveals a Cromwell who was both genuine in his faith and deliberate in his dishonesty?and...

Crushed by the Romans in the first century A.D., the ancient Druids of Britain left almost no reliable evidence behind. This captivating book by a world expert examines what is known of the Druids, then explores how and why they have...