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The Oxford Illustrated Histories are a series of single-volume history books written by experts and published by the Oxford University Press. [1] According to Hew Strachan , its intended readership is the 'intelligent general reader' rather than the research student.
Owen Davies (born 1969) is a British historian who specialises in the history of magic, witchcraft, ghosts, and popular medicine. [1] He is currently Professor in History at the University of Hertfordshire [ 2 ] and has been described as Britain's "foremost academic expert on the history of magic".
This category is for articles on history books with witchcraft as a topic. Pages in category "History books about witchcraft" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
History: John Arnold: 24 February 2000: History 017: Roman Britain: Peter Salway: 10 August 2000 1 August 2015 (2nd ed.) Chapter from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, 1984: History – U.K. 018: The Anglo-Saxon Age: John Blair: 10 August 2000: Chapter from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, 1984: History – U.K. 019: Medieval ...
Most of the books have been written specifically for the series, but around 60 were recycled from earlier OUP publications: several had been in OUP's Past Masters series, [7] and numbers 17–24 used chapters from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain (1984). Each book of the series is numbered on its spine. These numbers broadly, but not ...
The whole is illustrated throughout with calligraphic and sigillic depictions of the Opposer's composite mysteries." [ 19 ] Issued in several different hard bindings as standard, deluxe and private editions, copies of Qutub included unique additions such as hand-drawn talismans or sigillised inscriptions.
Man, Myth & Magic: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Supernatural is an encyclopedia of the supernatural, including magic, mythology and religion. It was edited by Richard Cavendish . The art director was Brian Innes, former percussionist of the band the Temperance Seven .
The book was the result of research carried out by Yeates at Oxford University as part of a D.Phil. project from 2001 to 2005. The supervisors of the study were Prof. Martin Henig and Prof. Barry Cunliffe, and the assessors Dr. Ray Howell and Prof. Chris Gosden. Though certain ideas, such as that concerning Cuda, had already been formulated ...