WINNER OF THE KATHERINE BRIGGS AWARD 2022
A high-quality edited collection with a global scope and diverse set of contributors. The work transcends national and regional constraints to understand cultural expressions as part of a wider circulation of forms and meanings. Bringing a fresh approach with lively and well-constructed arguments, the book truly showcases the complexity and dynamic creativity of popular culture. For more details see here - https://folklore-society.com/blog-post/the-katharine-briggs-award-2022/
An engaging collection linking magical events and traditions from painting to shapeshifting, collecting to witch trials, fairies to astrology across time and location: surprising and informative.
Marion Gibson, University of Exeter, UK
Held together by the complex concept of cultural exchange, helpfully explored in the introduction, this collection of case-studies illuminates numerous aspects of folklore, magic and witchcraft, both medieval and early modern, from northern Scandinavia to the Islamic world, with a particular focus on Italy, bringing much new European scholarship into reach for an English-speaking audience.
Jonathan Barry, University of Exeter, UK
[ ...] the anthology looks beyond both the records of witchcraft trials and the notion of the magic-user as, exclusively, a witch, offering a diverse yet complementary set of perspectives on magical traditions as both substance and means of cultural exchange in Europe between the twelfth and eighteenth centuries.
Anna Milon, Folklore, 2022
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