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Supernatural and Secular Power in Early Modern England
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Staging the Superstitions of Early Modern Europe
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Engaging with fiction and history-and reading both genres as texts permeated with early modern anxieties, desires, and apprehensions-this collection scrutinizes
Technic and Magic
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We take for granted that only certain kind of things exist – electrons but not angels, passports but not nymphs. This is what we understand as 'reality'. But