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A vibrant look at an unsettled and strangely familiar time that overturns our assumptions about the history of magic. Imagine: it's the year 1600 and you've lost your precious silver spoons, or maybe they've been stolen. Perhaps your child has a fever. Or you're facing a trial. Maybe you're looking for love or escaping a husband. What do you do? In medieval and early modern Europe, your first port of call might have been cunning folk: practitioners of “service magic.” Neither feared (like witches), nor venerated (like saints), they were essential to daily life. For people across ages, genders, and social ranks, practical magic was a cherished resource for navigating life's many challenges. In historian Tabitha Stanmore's beguiling account, we meet lovelorn widows, dissolute nobles, selfless healers, and renegade monks. We listen in on Queen Elizabeth I's astrology readings and track treasure hunters trying to unearth buried gold without upsetting the fairies that guard it. Much like us, premodern people lived in a bewildering world, buffeted by forces beyond their control. As Stanmore reveals, their faith in magic has much to teach about how to accommodate the irrational in our allegedly enlightened lives today. Charming in every sense, Cunning Folk is at once an immersive reconstruction of a bygone era and a thought-provoking commentary on the beauty and bafflement of being human.

Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic
'A brilliant book, written with wit and vigour' MALCOLM GASKILL 'Absolutely fascinating' IAN MORTIMER Tabitha Stanmore transports us to a time when magic 
Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic (Hardcover)
Description. A vibrant look at an unsettled and strangely familiar time that overturns our assumptions about the history of magic.
Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic
A stand-out look at the real people behind the folkloric magic of medieval and early modern England. No other book reveals the strange and wondrous details of 
Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic
A spritely and deeply researched history of magical problem-solving in a distant, unsettled, and strangely familiar time.
Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic (Hardcover)
Description. A vibrant look at an unsettled and strangely familiar time that overturns our assumptions about the history of magic.
Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic (Hardcover)
Description. A vibrant look at an unsettled and strangely familiar time that overturns our assumptions about the history of magic.
Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic (Hardcover)
Description. A vibrant look at an unsettled and strangely familiar time that overturns our assumptions about the history of magic.
Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic (Hardcover)
A vibrant look at an unsettled and strangely familiar time that overturns our assumptions about the history of magic. Imagine: it's the year 1600 and you've