Stuart Alan Clark

Stars and Atoms: From the Big Bang to the Solar System

Journey to the Stars

Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe

Thinking With Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe

Vanities of the Eye: Vision in Early Modern European Culture

Languages of Witchcraft: Narrative, Ideology and Meaning in Early Modern Culture

Languages of Witchcraft: Narrative, Ideology and Meaning in Early Modern Culture

Languages of Witchcraft: Narrative, Ideology and Meaning in Early Modern Culture

Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Vol. 2: Ancient Greece and Rome (Witchcraft and Magic in Europe)

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 2000The roots of European witchcraft and magic lie in Hebrew and other ancient Near Eastern cultures and in the Celtic, Nordic, and Germanic traditions of the Continent. For two millennia, European folklore and ritual have been imbued w...

Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 3: The Middle Ages

During the Middle Ages a shared European concept of magic emerged. In the early period, pagan beliefs and practices were absorbed into everyday culture, including the rituals of the Church. The rise of the practice of "white magic" in the twelfth century became so popular that it caused a widespread...

Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Period of the Witch Trials (Witchcraft and Magic in Europe)

Each volume in the series Witchcraft and Magic in Europe combines the traditional approaches of political, legal, and social historians with a critical synthesis of cultural anthropology, historical psychology, and gender studies. The series, complete in six volumes, provides a modern, scholarly sur...

Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Vol. 5: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Witchcraft and Magic in Europe)

The roots of European witchcraft and magic lie in Hebrew and other ancient Near Eastern cultures and in the Celtic, Nordic, and Germanic traditions of the Continent. For two millennia, European folklore and ritual have been imbued with the belief in the supernatural, yielding a rich trove of histori...

Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe

This major work offers a new interpretation of the witchcraft beliefs of European intellectuals between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, showing how these beliefs fitted rationally with other beliefs of the period and how far the nature of rationality is dependent on its historical context.

The Sun Kings: The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began

In September of 1859, the entire Earth was engulfed in a gigantic cloud of seething gas, and a blood-red aurora erupted across the planet from the poles to the tropics. Around the world, telegraph systems crashed, machines burst into flames, and electric shocks rendered operators unconscious. Com...

The Unknown Universe: A New Exploration of Time, Space, and Modern Cosmology

A groundbreaking guide to the universe and how our latest deep-space discoveries are forcing us to revisit what we know―and what we don't. On March 21, 2013, the European Space Agency released a map of the afterglow of the Big Bang. Taking in 440 sextillion kilometres of space and 13.8 billion years...

The Unknown Universe: What We Don't Know About Time and Space in Ten Chapters