Magic and Reputation in England c.1500-c.1800; contextualising magic in a society of credit

这个项目将探索在16、17、18世纪的英格兰，女巫、狡猾的民间和其他被指控或自称的魔法从业者是如何发展出超自然力量的名声的。通过借鉴声誉和信用的文献，它将试图理解声誉对这些人意味着什么，以及他们在一个以信誉和价值为中心的社会中的地位。这将把魔法作为声誉社会的一部分，而不是辅助的东西，并在当前的价值讨论中引入常规类别之外的元素。

This project will explore how witches, cunning folk, and other alleged or professed practitioners of magic in sixteenth-, seventeenth-, and eighteenth-century England developed reputations for supernatural power. By drawing on the literature of reputation and credit, it will seek to understand what reputation meant for these people and their place in a society that revolved around credit and worth. This will contextualise magic as part of a reputational society rather than as something auxiliary and introduce elements outside the usual categories to current discussions of worth.