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The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft
Written by Ronald Hutton
Narrated by Bruce Mann
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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.
Author
Ronald Hutton
Ronald Hutton is a professor of history at the University of Bristol who specializes in pre-Christian religion and contemporary Paganism. He is the author of more than a dozen books.
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Reviews for The Triumph of the Moon
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Such a wonderful, seminal book. It is a treasure in print, but I can’t continue to listen to the narrator. He ends every sentence as though he’s delivering headlines for BBC World Service.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Incredible book, tough listen. The narrator chose to read in the style of the most boring University lecturer a text of magnificent content. I’ve never worked harder to listen to a book I was so desperate to complete.
Somebody must have approved this approach and that horrifies me. Like having Ben Stein narrate an Indiana Jones book. Ugh.
But the text is glorious. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Arguably the best book written on the history of the occult in Britain. But, as others have said, read by a narrator using the worst 'voice' in Britain. I persevered listening because Paul Hutton's research is beyond excellence. I put it on fast forward to make it bearable.