{"id":12680,"date":"2022-01-27T10:25:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T17:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12680"},"modified":"2022-01-27T10:25:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T17:25:20","slug":"ronald-huttons-goddess-book-available-for-pre-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=12680","title":{"rendered":"Ronald Hutton’s Goddess Book Available for Pre-order"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>From the publisher, Yale University Press:<\/p>\n

In this riveting account, renowned scholar Ronald Hutton explores the history of deity-like figures in Christian Europe. Drawing on anthropology, archaeology, literature, and history, Hutton shows how hags, witches, the fairy queen, and the Green Man all came to be, and how they changed over the centuries.<\/p>\n

Looking closely at four main figures\u2014Mother Earth, the Fairy Queen, the Mistress of the Night, and the Old Woman of Gaelic tradition\u2014Hutton challenges decades of debate around the female figures who have long been thought versions of pre-Christian goddesses. He makes the compelling case that these goddess figures found in the European imagination did not descend from the pre-Christian ancient world, yet have nothing Christian about them. It was in fact nineteenth-century scholars who attempted to establish the narrative of pagan survival that persists today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The book will be out later this spring. For some reason, Yale UP is not taking pre-orders, but you can pre-order from Amazon<\/a>,((If you do, you will help me pay my hosting fee)) or from several other sources linked on the Yale UP catalog page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the publisher, Yale University Press: In this riveting account, renowned scholar Ronald Hutton explores the history of deity-like figures in Christian Europe. Drawing on anthropology, archaeology, literature, and history, Hutton shows how hags, witches, the fairy queen, and the Green Man all came to be, and how they changed over the centuries. 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Clifton","date":"April 28, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Magic and Witchery: Celebrating the Twentieth Anniversary of 'The Triumph of the Moon' will be published in September by Palgrave Macmillan. I love rolling the word Festschrift around, and if you are not used to it, this is what it means: \"In academia, a Festschrift\u00a0 (plural Festschriften) is a book\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"academia\"","block_context":{"text":"academia","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=academia"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/magic-and-witchery-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2673,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2673","url_meta":{"origin":12680,"position":1},"title":"Caroline Tully Interviews Ronald Hutton","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"May 20, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Australian blogger and graduate student Caroline Tully interviews Ronald Hutton on her blog, Necropolis Now. One excerpt: In that case what is your relationship with Paganism? It has been long and close. As I mentioned in my book Witches, Druids and King Arthur, I was in fact brought up Pagan,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Paganism\"","block_context":{"text":"Paganism","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=paganism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":98,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=98","url_meta":{"origin":12680,"position":2},"title":"Inventing Jane Harrison","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"January 15, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I have received Mary Beard's The Invention of Jane Harrison--there goes the evening. (And all hail the interlibrary loan staff for producing it so quickly.) Ronald Hutton writes of Harrison in his book The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft: \"Savagery and barbarism both frightened and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"books\"","block_context":{"text":"books","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=books"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2741,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2741","url_meta":{"origin":12680,"position":3},"title":"Ronald Hutton Responds to His Critics","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"June 6, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Even before his interview with Australian scholar\/blogger Caroline Tully, Ronald Hutton had written a lengthy article for The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies titled \"Writing the History of Witchcraft: A Personal View.\" It is now available as a free download from Equinox Publishing. In it, Professor Hutton discusses\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"books\"","block_context":{"text":"books","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=books"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4777,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4777","url_meta":{"origin":12680,"position":4},"title":"Two Items Involving Ronald Hutton","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"December 2, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"First, an interview by Ethan Doyle White with British scholar of esotericism Dave Evans, who did his doctorate with Hutton at Bristol and speaks well of him: Having a conversation with Ronald is a delight, and I had him to myself every 3 weeks or so, for a precious half\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"academia\"","block_context":{"text":"academia","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=academia"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1180,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1180","url_meta":{"origin":12680,"position":5},"title":"Hutton Named English Heritage Commissioner","author":"Chas S. 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