Series Editors:

Tabitha Stanmore is a historian who teaches at the University of Exeter. She has published two highly acclaimed books. The first, Love Spells and Lost Treasure: Service Magic in England from the Later Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. The second, titled Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic and published by The Bodley Head in 2024, was in the same year the winner of the Folklore Society’s prestigious Katharine Briggs Award.

Francis Young, who has been shortlisted three times for the Katharine Briggs Award, is an independent scholar who works across religion, classics, history and the history of ideas. He has published more than twenty books on subjects which include St Edmund, magic as a crime in medieval and early modern England, paganism in the early modern Baltic, Anglican and Roman Catholic exorcism, early modern English Catholicism, and witchcraft and the modern Roman Catholic church. His most recent books – Magic in Merlin’s Realm: A History of Occult Politics in Britain (2022), Twilight of the Godlings: The Shadowy Beginnings of Britain’s Supernatural Beings (2023) and Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe’s Last Pagan Peoples (2025) – are all available from Cambridge University Press.