Contents
Preface
Introduction: the fairy-haunted world
1. The hills are alive: sacred nature in ancient Europe
2. Between heaven and hell: monotheism and ambiguous spirits
3. Here be monsters: otherworldly beings in the Middle Ages
4. Founding fairyland: the late Middle Ages
5. The reformation of fairyland: early modern fairies
6. Trying the spirits: fairies and the enchanted Enlightenment
7. Fairies go global
8. The coming (back) of the fairies: the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
9. Rewilding fairyland: fairies today
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Contents
Preface
Introduction: the fairy-haunted world
1. The hills are alive: sacred nature in ancient Europe
2. Between heaven and hell: monotheism and ambiguous spirits
3. Here be monsters: otherworldly beings in the Middle Ages
4. Founding fairyland: the late Middle Ages
5. The reformation of fairyland: early modern fairies
6. Trying the spirits: fairies and the enchanted Enlightenment
7. Fairies go global
8. The coming (back) of the fairies: the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
9. Rewilding fairyland: fairies today
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography