1124321Cunning Folkhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/cunning-folk-1/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/468207/45380096-bd1e-4046-8b9a-0e0845ac1e97.jpg?v=638768402448670000421514MXNVintage PublishingInStock/Ebooks/Cunning Folk transports us to a time when magic was used to solve lifes day-to-day problems as well as some of deadly importance.A brilliant book, written with wit and vigour MALCOLM GASKILL, author of The Ruin of All WitchesAbsolutely fascinating IAN MORTIMER, author of The Time-Travellers Guide to Medieval EnglandIts 1600 and youve lost your precious silver spoons, or maybe theyve been stolen. Perhaps your child has a fever. Or youre facing trial. Maybe youre looking for love or escaping a husband. What do you do? In medieval and early modern Europe, your first port of call might well have been cunning folk: practitioners of magic who were a common, even essential part of daily life, at a time when the supernatural was surprisingly mundane.Charming, thought-provoking and based on original research, Cunning Folk is an immersive reconstruction of a bygone world by an expert historian, as well as a commentary on the beauty and bafflement of being human.I adore Cunning Folk. A truly fascinating and human book Ruth Goodman, author of How To Be a TudorPacked with vivid historical anecdotes, this is an intriguing insight into the magical lives of past people and the history of our own superstitions today Marion Gibson, author of WitchcraftFascinating . . . opens a window into another world Tracy Borman, author of Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth IFull of such magical tips and colourful vignettes . . . crackles with incident Kate Maltby, Financial TimesSpirited and richly detailed New York TimesWINNER OF THE KATHARINE BRIGGS AWARD 2024...1117477Cunning Folk421514https://www.gandhi.com.mx/cunning-folk-1/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/468207/45380096-bd1e-4046-8b9a-0e0845ac1e97.jpg?v=638768402448670000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20249781529926347_W3siaWQiOiJmNTA3MzVhMS02ZDMzLTQwNWEtYjU0Mi03NmJlODQyY2MxMzIiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjUyMCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjk0LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjQyNiwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjQtMTItMDFUMDA6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9781529926347_In Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic, historian Tabitha Stanmore will transport the reader to a time when magic was used day-to-day as a way to navigate lifes challenges and to solve problems of both trivial and deadly importance.Imagine its the year 1500 and youve lost your precious silver spoons - or perhaps your neighbour has stolen them. Or maybe your child has a fever. Or youre facing trial. Or youre looking for a lover. Or youre hoping to escape a husband...At a time when natures inner workings were largely a mystery, people from every walk of life - kings, clergy and commonfolk - who faced problems or circumstances they were powerless to control sought the help of cunning folk. These wise women and men were often renowned for their skill at healing the sick or predicting the future, fortune-telling and divination, and for their knowledge of spells and potions. Occasionally and tragically, some were condemned as witches for using their powers for ill. But this has tended to obscure the fact that the magic they practised was a normal and accepted part of daily life.In Stanmores richly peopled and highly entertaining history, we see how this practical or service magic was used and why people put their faith in it. Each of the stories in the book acts as a micro-drama of medieval and early modern life with its pre-scientific worldview, animating vividly peoples intimate fears, hopes and desires, many movingly familiar, some thrillingly strange. Told with great wit and warmth, these very human encounters help us to understand why, at that time, seeking magic was not necessarily irrational at all, and also bring into view the ways in which many of us rely on magical thinking today....(*_*)9781529926347_Cunning Folk transports us to a time when magic was used to solve lifes day-to-day problems as well as some of deadly importance.A brilliant book, written with wit and vigour MALCOLM GASKILL, author of The Ruin of All WitchesAbsolutely fascinating IAN MORTIMER, author of The Time-Travellers Guide to Medieval EnglandIts 1600 and youve lost your precious silver spoons, or maybe theyve been stolen. Perhaps your child has a fever. Or youre facing trial. Maybe youre looking for love or escaping a husband. What do you do? In medieval and early modern Europe, your first port of call might well have been cunning folk: practitioners of magic who were a common, even essential part of daily life, at a time when the supernatural was surprisingly mundane.Charming, thought-provoking and based on original research, Cunning Folk is an immersive reconstruction of a bygone world by an expert historian, as well as a commentary on the beauty and bafflement of being human.I adore Cunning Folk. A truly fascinating and human book Ruth Goodman, author of How To Be a TudorPacked with vivid historical anecdotes, this is an intriguing insight into the magical lives of past people and the history of our own superstitions today Marion Gibson, author of WitchcraftFascinating . . . opens a window into another world Tracy Borman, author of Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth IFull of such magical tips and colourful vignettes . . . crackles with incident Kate Maltby, Financial TimesSpirited and richly detailed New York TimesWINNER OF THE KATHARINE BRIGGS AWARD 2024...9781529926347_Vintage Publishinglibro_electonico_ebd70003-3de7-312f-94b7-1a61f258e099_9781529926347;9781529926347_9781529926347Tabitha StanmoreInglésMéxico2024-05-02T00:00:00+00:00https://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/penguinrandomhouseuk-epub-1cac9f4b-a270-4baf-9572-63601d18fcf1.epub2024-05-02T00:00:00+00:00Vintage Publishing