The Triumph of the Moon, Ronald Hutton
The Triumph of the Moon, Ronald Hutton
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The Triumph of the Moon
A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft

Author: Ronald Hutton

Narrator: Bruce Mann

Unabridged: 28 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/05/2021

Synopsis

Ronald Hutton is known for his colorful, provocative, and always exhaustively researched studies on original subjects. This work is no exception: the first full-scale scholarly study of the only religion England has ever given the world, that of modern pagan witchcraft, which has now spread from English shores across four continents. Hutton examines the nature of that religion and its development, and offers a microhistory of attitudes to paganism, witchcraft, and magic in British society since 1800. Village cunning folk and Victorian ritual magicians, classicists and archaeologists, leaders of woodcraft and scouting movements, Freemasons and members of rural secret societies, all appear in the pages of this book. Also included are some of the leading figures of English literature, from the Romantic poets to WB Yeats, DH Lawrence, and Robert Graves, as well as the main personalities who have represented pagan witchcraft to the world since 1950.

About Ronald Hutton

Ronald Hutton is professor of history at Bristol University and a leading authority on the British Isles in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, on ancient and medieval paganism and magic, and on the global context of witchcraft beliefs. He is the author of seventeen books.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David on July 12, 2008

Terribly interesting to read in it's own right, this book will level the head of any new neo-pagans and aspiring witches. Follow it up with "Drawing Down the Moon" and you'll have your spiritual cap screwed on tight enough to withstand the sea of occult books out there that seek to do little beyond......more

Goodreads review by Ruth on August 01, 2007

The true history of modern Wicca. Deeply academic yet totally fascinating, Ronald Hutton here turns his considerable historical expertise to unraveling the roots of Britain's only home-grown religion. No, it's not 30,000 years old, and yes, Gerald Gardener did fudge a lot of things. But Hutton argue......more

Goodreads review by Cwn_annwn_13 on November 01, 2024

Hutton more or less aproached the book as an unbiased historian instead of going out of his way to critique Wicca. I'd recomend reading this book. The history and evolution of it is interesting.......more

Goodreads review by Ken on June 12, 2007

I can't give a clear recommendation for this book. It seems to be rather fixated on refuting an absolute connection from old pagan religion towards neopaganism. On the very narrow line the author follows that refutation can be justified, and for that I suppose it has some use. On the other hand it te......more

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