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Ronald Edmund Hutton CBE FSA FRHistS FLSW FBA (born 19 December 1953) is an Indian-born English historian specialising in early modern Britain, British folklore, pre-Christian religion, and modern paganism. A professor at the University of Bristol, Hutton has
The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft is a book of religious history by the English historian Ronald Hutton, first published by Oxford University Press in 1999. At the time, Hutton was a Reader in History at Bristol University, and had previously published a study of ancient pre-Christian religion, The Pagan Religions of ...
Shamans: Siberian Spirituality and the Western Imagination is a historical study of how westerners have viewed the shamans of Siberia.It was written by the English historian Ronald Hutton, then working at the University of Bristol, and first published by Hambledon and London in 2001.
Hutton was born at Ootacamund in India to a colonial family, [1] and is of part-Russian ancestry. [2] Upon arriving in England, he attended Ilford County High School, whilst becoming greatly interested in archaeology, joining the committee of a local archaeological group and taking part in excavations from 1965 to 1976, including at such sites as Pilsdon Pen hill fort, Ascott-under-Wychwood ...
In his study of contemporary Pagan Witchcraft, The Triumph of the Moon (1999), the English historian Ronald Hutton (1953–) of the University of Bristol noted that Ecstasies was "something which probably nobody else could have written, and which broke important new ground."
Ronald Hutton: 1953– History Hutton is an English historian. Educated at Cambridge and Oxford, he taught history at the University of Bristol in the 1980s. He has written influential books on Neopaganism, Wicca, and related topics. [43] [44] Jean-François Mayer: 1957– History
This is a list of University of Bristol people, including a brief description of their notability. This list includes not just former students but persons who are or have been associated with the university, including former academics, Chancellors, and recipients of honorary degrees.
The prominent English historian Ronald Hutton of the University of Bristol later devoted part of his book The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles (1991) to an examination of the contemporary pagan religions that took these pre-Christian religions as a core influence.