'All was this land full fill'd of faerie', or Magic and the Past in Early Modern England

Author / Editor
Kassell, Lauren.

Title
'All was this land full fill'd of faerie', or Magic and the Past in Early Modern England

Published
Journal of the History of Ideas 67.1 (2006): 107-22.

Description
Following a methodology outlined in Gabriel Naud's seventeenth-century history of magic, the essay examines early modern historical accounts of magic to understand how magic came to be defined and debated. The title derives from WBT.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.