Ronald Hutton
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 515239 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ronald Hutton |
| NOMBRES | Ronald |
| APELLIDO | Hutton |
| FIRMA | HUTTON R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Bristol |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 114 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 104 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 113 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1969 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
A conversation on witchcraft
This conversation considers the definition of witchcraft, its origins, history, and various manifestations of witches in history and literature. The speakers discuss the issue of the gender of witches, and how thinking about witches and witchcraft has changed over time. Witches are a global phenomenon, but the conversation concentrates on their European history. Emphasis is placed on the impact of the Reformation and the religious nature of many …
Eingegangene Bücher
How Sacred Are the Dead
Traditionally, one of the most magical, numinous, or consecrated kinds of space is a grave, which has the capacity to inspire all the feelings of reverence, affection, discomfort, or fear that humans associate with the dead of their own species. However, the contents of graves, including the bodies of occupants, also represent one of the most valuable sources of information concerning ancient societies. For most of the time since systematic inqui…
Royalism, Religion and Revolution
Good history books can usually be divided into those which overturn an accepted scholarly consensus and those which reinforce one: this volume fits into the latter category. It has always been recognised that seventeenth-century Wales was unusually conservative in its political and religious culture, and that this resulted in its powerful allegiance to royalism, especially in the Civil War, and its corresponding support for the established Church…
The Celtic New Year and Feast of the Dead
At the opening of the twenty-first century it was an established orthodoxy in books about 'the pagan Celts' that they celebrated their New Year at the feast known in Irish as Samhain, which later became All Saints' Day, and that this was also their great annual commemoration of the dead.This belief can be traced to the influence of two eminent Victorian and Edwardian scholars, Sir John Rhys and Sir James
Liz Henty, Exploring Archaeoastronomy
Liz Henty, Exploring Archaeoastronomy: A History of Its Relationship with Archaeology and EsotericismOxford: Oxbow Books, 2022, 278pp, b/w and colour illus. ISBN 978 1 78925 786 1
Green Man
The Green Man, a figure usually taken as representing the vivifying and fertilising power of the natural world, and especially of vegetation, has become one of the icons of modern ecology and environmental spirituality. He is often represented visually by a foliate head, gushing leaves from mouth and nose, of the kind found carved in medieval churches, and associated also with the foliate Jack-in-the-Green character in May Day festivities and wit…
When Is an Ancient Site a Sacred Site (and Who Makes It One)
Britain has one of the richest collections of evidence for pre-Christian religions to be found anywhere in Europe. During the twentieth century it developed a body of historians and archaeologists to interpret that evidence and heritage managers to present it. During the same century Britain was also the birthplace of a revived Paganism, consisting of a complex of modern religions inspired by the pre-Christian past, which has spread across much o…
The Wild Hunt in the Modern British Imagination
The expression ‘Wild Hunt’ has acted as shorthand in Western culture for nocturnal cavalcades of spirits, usually with a recognized leader, ever since it was coined by the German scholar Jacob Grimm in the early nineteenth century. For a short period in the late twentieth century it was a major motif in British fiction, and especially in novels designed for children and young adults. This article is intended to explore the links between the two p…
An Expository Study of Witchcraft among the Basoga of Uganda
Witches and Cunning Folk in British Literature 1800–1940
Relatively little attention has been paid to representations of witches and cunning folk (popular magicians) in British literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. There have been a few pioneering works, but they have adopted different definitions of witches, concentrated on different spans of time, and reached different conclusions (and half of them are still contained in unpublished theses). This study covers the whole period be…
Christmas and the British; a modern story
Richard Firth Green, Elf Queens and Holy Friars
Physical Evidence for Ritual Acts, Sorcery and Witchcraft in Christian Britain
Witches, Pagans and Historians. An Extended Review of Max Dashu, Witches and Pagans
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The Devil's Tabernacle
"The Devil’s Tabernacle: The Pagan Oracles in Early Modern Thought." The European Legacy, 21(2), pp. 227–228
Pagan Britain
The Palaeolithic and Mesolithic
This chapter discusses the excavations of three major British sites that revealed evidence of Paleolithic ritual: the Goat's Hole cave at Paviland, Creswell Crags, and Gough's Cave in Cheddar Gorge. It also presents evidence of ritual behaviour in Mesolithic Europe. Among the excavated sites, the Aveline's Hole burials have the largest assemblage of Mesolithic human remains in Britain and one of the most important in Europe.
Conclusion
This book has discussed how much changing cultural patterns in the past and present have influenced scholarly reconstructions of ancient paganism. It also describes the extent to which a wide-ranging study enabled useful comparisons to be made between approaches to the study of religious activity in different periods. This conclusion extends the discussion and attempts to answer the two remaining questions prefaced in this book: whether it is pos…
The Making of the Early Modern British Fairy Tradition
This review is intended to examine the development of representations of elves and fairies in British culture between the twelfth and the seventeenth centuries. It will argue that a very clear two-stage evolution in those representations can be found in literary sources, from an inchoate range found in different kinds of text, with no apparent collective identity, to a coherent sense of a kingdom, to which the common word ‘fairy’ could be applied…
The idea of order
The Strange History of British Archaeoastronomy
Between 1965 and 1985, British archaeologists found themselves obliged to study the skies as well as the evidence beneath the earth. The sciences of astronomy, mathematics, and statistics bore down on the study of prehistoric monuments as never before, and a series of impressive books and conferences explored the alignments and proportions of ancient ceremonial sites. A quarter of a century later, all this excitement has arguably evaporated. The …
Sacred Folly
Max Harris’s latest book on festivals is a close, and fiercely revisionist, study of a single calendar tradition: the so-called Feast of Fools which flourished in some cathedral cities until its slow suppression in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. His main target in this enterprise is Sir Edmund Chambers, the British scholar who produced the standard modern portrait of the tradition over a hundred years ago. Chambers condensed sources from …
Turncoats and Renegadoes
Over the past thirty years, studies of the nature of the English Civil War have changed focus and scale. Gone are the explanations in terms of major social and economic processes, which dominated in the mid-twentieth century and caused entire classes to rise or decline and made the war a rupture created by such seismic movements within the bedrock of society. One hears much less now of the cultural and ideological factors, of religious beliefs, p…
Witchcraft, Madness, Society and Religion in Early Modern Germany
These are, effectively, the collected essays of Erik Midelfort, one of the most prominent American historians of early modern Germany and one who has published continuously since the early 1970s and shows no sign of slowing down. Fifteen items appear in this volume, ranging in length from four pages to forty-four and spanning the whole period of Midelfort’s life as an author. As the title and subtitle indicate, they deal with the imaginative worl…
The Neolithic great goddess
Modern belief in the veneration of a single Great Goddess in the European Neolithic is often accompanied by the notion that those cultures of 'Old Europe' were woman-centred in society as well as religion. What is the long history which precedes these contemporary notions? What is the complex history of their political development? A chain runs from Classical times to Marija Gimbutas (Meskell 1995) and our own day
Anthropological and Historical Approaches to Witchcraft
In the 1960s a comparative approach, covering different continents and periods of time, was common in the study of witchcraft. During the 1970s it fell out of fashion because of criticism by some anthropologists, and collusion between the disciplines of anthropology and history over the subject more or less ended. In the 1990s, unnoticed by virtually all historians, some anthropologists and sociologists began again to emphasize a global, and inte…
Modern Pagan Festivals
The cluster of recently appeared religions known as Paganism have developed, over the past sixty years, a distinctive cycle of annual festivals, most of which draw on long historic roots but that are grouped together in a modern framework. No study has yet been made of the manner in which this cycle developed, and potentially rich rewards may be gained from doing so. Such a project is a rare opportunity to study a religious festive tradition in t…
How Pagan Were Medieval English Peasants
During the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, it was commonplace among historians that the common people of medieval England had remained substantially pagan in their religious beliefs. Christianity, according to this view, was essentially the faith of the elite, with the populace embracing what was at best a dual allegiance to the new and old religions. This view has now disappeared, and the time seems right to take stock of medieval pop…
Shamanism
ShamanismMapping the Boundaries Ronald Hutton In his "reader" on the subject, published in 2003, Graham Harvey defined shamanism not so much as a technical term as a "semantic field."1 Applied only to activities in contemporary British society, it has already become attached to five different phenomena; its application to practices and practitioners in traditional societies are correspondingly even more diverse. Graham's own response was to celeb…
The English Reformation and the Evidence of Folklore
Journal Article THE ENGLISH REFORMATION AND THE EVIDENCE OF FOLKLORE Get access Ronald Hutton Ronald Hutton University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 148, Issue 1, August 1995, Pages 89–116, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/148.1.89 Published: 01 August 1995
The Structure of the Royalist Party, 1642–1646
In the last forty years the accepted portrait of the parliamentarian party during the Great Civil War has changed almost beyond recognition. A score of books and articles have been devoted, with much debate, to reinterpreting the nature of the factions comprising that party. By contrast, the accepted view of its opponent, the royalist party, is still that established by Gardiner over a hundred years ago. This situation is not unduly surprising. S…
The Wild Hunt and the Witches' Sabbath
Recent writing on the medieval origins of the concept of the witches' sabbath have emphasized the importance of beliefs in nocturnal processions or cavalcades of spirits, known in modern times by the umbrella term of the ‘Wild Hunt’. This article suggests that the modern notion of the Hunt was created by Jacob Grimm, who conflated different medieval traditions with modern folklore. It further argues that a different approach to the study of medie…
The Celtic New Year and Feast of the Dead
At the opening of the twenty-first century it was an established orthodoxy in books about 'the pagan Celts' that they celebrated their New Year at the feast known in Irish as Samhain, which later became All Saints' Day, and that this was also their great annual commemoration of the dead.This belief can be traced to the influence of two eminent Victorian and Edwardian scholars, Sir John Rhys and Sir James
The Strange History of British Archaeoastronomy
Between 1965 and 1985, British archaeologists found themselves obliged to study the skies as well as the evidence beneath the earth. The sciences of astronomy, mathematics, and statistics bore down on the study of prehistoric monuments as never before, and a series of impressive books and conferences explored the alignments and proportions of ancient ceremonial sites. A quarter of a century later, all this excitement has arguably evaporated. The …
Witchcraft and Deep Time-a debate at Harvard
Archaeology, consistently warned off religion by wise old heads, here rushes deeper into the thicket to tackle the thorny topic of ancient witchcraft. The occasion was a seminar at Harvard organised by Stephen Mitchell and Neil Price to mark the twentieth anniversary of Carlo Ginzburg's influential book on the connections between witches and shamanism - and by implication the possible connections with prehistoric ritual and belief. Archaeology wa…
The Status of Witchcraft in the Modern World
Contemporary Pagan Witches have for the most part abandoned the foundation myth that they represent the survival of an ancient religion forced underground during the era of European witch trials. They have transformed older models of witchcraft to serve the needs of modern spirituality. Yet those same older models present problems to publics and governments around the world, where witchcraft persecutions and panics over 'ritual abuse' continue. S…
The Post-Reformation
ONE of the greatest changes in the writing of history during the past twenty years has been the acceptance of ideas as forces of change in their own right. Until the 1980s, it was still common for textbooks to commence an account of a particular period by laying down a foundation of economics and demographics. Now ideology in general, and (in a time of resurgent Islamic and Christian fundamentalism) religious ideology in particular, is treated as…
Seasonal Festivity in Late Medieval England
The Religion of William Stukeley
During recent years a new consensus of opinion seems to have grown up concerning the career of the eighteenth-century antiquary William Stukeley: that his ideas underwent no significant alteration in the course of his adult life, and that Stuart Piggott's famous characterization of Stukeley — that he changed from an objective field archaeologist into a religious crank — was completely wrong. While there is much to commend this revisionist approac…
The Making of the Secret Treaty of Dover, 1668–1670
Few international agreements have provoked more controversy among historians than that concluded at Dover, on 22 May 1670, by representatives of the English and French Crowns. Its main provisions were for an offensive war against the Dutch republic of the United Provinces, leading to its destruction as a European power, and for the public profession by the English king, Charles II, of the Roman Catholic faith, which had been regarded by most Engl…
Clarendon's History of the Rebellion
Journal Article Clarendon's History of the Rebellion Get access RONALD HUTTON RONALD HUTTON Magdalen CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCVII, Issue CCCLXXXII, January 1982, Pages 70–88, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCVII.CCCLXXXII.70 Published: 01 January 1982
The Wild Hunt in the Modern British Imagination
The expression ‘Wild Hunt’ has acted as shorthand in Western culture for nocturnal cavalcades of spirits, usually with a recognized leader, ever since it was coined by the German scholar Jacob Grimm in the early nineteenth century. For a short period in the late twentieth century it was a major motif in British fiction, and especially in novels designed for children and young adults. This article is intended to explore the links between the two p…
Writing the History of Witchcraft
Over the past forty years, professional historians have taken an intense, and unprecedented, degree of interest in the early modern European witch trials, resulting in a huge amount of new publications. These have had a knock-on effect on the self-image of modern witches, based as that has traditionally been on an interpretation of early modern witchcraft which was firmly rejected by these new studies. This resulted in a period of re-evaluation, …
Witch-Hunting in Celtic Societies
In 1981, as part of her pioneering work into the early modern Scottish witch trials, Christina Larner published a map of their geographical density.1 It showed a marked decrease from south-east to north-west, with most occurring in Fife, the Lothians and the Eastern Borders. The Northern and Western Highlands and the Hebrides — a huge area, covering almost a third of the country — were blank, and the key to them bore the confirmatory note ‘no cas…
Beacons in the Landscape
The Changing Faces of Manx Witchcraft
The nature of witchcraft beliefs and trials in the early modern Isle of Man has recently been the subject of some excellent research. The history of attitudes to witchcraft on the island is, however, also susceptible to a different approach: that of examining the manner in which they have developed and adapted over the time since the opening of the modern period. This longer perspective reveals, as did the close study of the early modern material…
Stonehenge
The Royalist War Effort, 1642-1646
Ocherki istorii Chili
An Armistice in Civil war Studies
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Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access RONALD HUTTON RONALD HUTTON Magdalen CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCVI, Issue CCCLXXVIII, January 1981, Pages 212-a–212, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCVI.CCCLXXVIII.212-a Published: 01 January 1981
The Structure of the Royalist Party, 1642–1646
In the last forty years the accepted portrait of the parliamentarian party during the Great Civil War has changed almost beyond recognition. A score of books and articles have been devoted, with much debate, to reinterpreting the nature of the factions comprising that party. By contrast, the accepted view of its opponent, the royalist party, is still that established by Gardiner over a hundred years ago. This situation is not unduly surprising. S…
Short Notices
Short Notices RONALD HUTTON RONALD HUTTON University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCVII, Issue CCCLXXXV, October 1982, Pages 911-a–911, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCVII.CCCLXXXV.911-a Published: 01 October 1982
Short Notices
Clarendon's History of the Rebellion
Journal Article Clarendon's History of the Rebellion Get access RONALD HUTTON RONALD HUTTON Magdalen CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCVII, Issue CCCLXXXII, January 1982, Pages 70–88, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCVII.CCCLXXXII.70 Published: 01 January 1982
Short Notices
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access RONALD HUTTON RONALD HUTTON University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCIX, Issue CCCXC, January 1984, Pages 181–182, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCIX.CCCXC.181 Published: 01 January 1984
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access RONALD HUTTON RONALD HUTTON University of Bristo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCIX, Issue CCCXCII, July 1984, Pages 614–615, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCIX.CCCXCII.614 Published: 01 July 1984
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access RONALD HUTTON RONALD HUTTON University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCIX, Issue CCCXC, January 1984, Page 237, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCIX.CCCXC.237 Published: 01 January 1984
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Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access RONALD HUTTON RONALD HUTTON University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CI, Issue CCCC, July 1986, Pages 715-b–717, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CI.CCCC.715-b Published: 01 July 1986
The Making of the Secret Treaty of Dover, 1668–1670
Few international agreements have provoked more controversy among historians than that concluded at Dover, on 22 May 1670, by representatives of the English and French Crowns. Its main provisions were for an offensive war against the Dutch republic of the United Provinces, leading to its destruction as a European power, and for the public profession by the English king, Charles II, of the Roman Catholic faith, which had been regarded by most Engl…
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access RONALD HUTTON RONALD HUTTON University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CII, Issue CCCCII, January 1987, Pages 214-a–214, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CII.CCCCII.214-a Published: 01 January 1987
Knocking the Gilt Off the Golden Days
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Charles the Second
Charles the Second, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland
The Fight for the Settlements, 1661–1664
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access RONALD HUTTON RONALD HUTTON University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CV, Issue CCCCXV, April 1990, Pages 473–474, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CV.CCCCXV.473 Published: 01 April 1990
The Restoration
A detailed study of a vital and eventful period of English history, which witnessed the Plague, the Great Fire of London the naval wars against the Dutch and the transformation of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth into the Restoration monarchy of Charles II.
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES RONALD HUTTON RONALD HUTTON University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVIII, Issue 427, April 1993, Pages 458–459, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVIII.427.458 Published: 01 April 1993
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access RONALD HUTTON RONALD HUTTON University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIX, Issue 431, April 1994, Pages 449–450, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIX.431.449 Published: 01 April 1994
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access RONALD HUTTON RONALD HUTTON University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIX, Issue 430, February 1994, Page 184, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIX.430.184 Published: 01 February 1994
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