Shriek before lift-off
Malcolm Gaskill: Could nuns fly?, 9 May 2024
They Flew: A History of the Impossible
by Carlos Eire.
Yale, 492 pp., £30, November 2023,978 0 300 25980 3 Show More
by Carlos Eire.
Yale, 492 pp., £30, November 2023,
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa
by Anthony Grafton.
Allen Lane, 289 pp., £30, January,978 1 84614 363 2 Show More
by Anthony Grafton.
Allen Lane, 289 pp., £30, January,
“... or hallucinating the same things at the same time? Mental disturbance seems the only explanation. Carlos Eire, an intellectual and religious historian, disagrees. He invites us to reconceptualise the supernatural by taking weird claims from the past on their own terms. There’s little historical mileage in chewing over what was possible or ... ”
