Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter One: "Are You a Good Witch or a Bad Witch?": An Introduction to Medieval and Early Modern Magic

Chapter Two: Gender-Blending: Transformative Power in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Arthurian Literature

Chapter Three: From Rags to Riches, Or the Step-Mother’s Revenge: Transformative Power in Late Medieval Arthurian Romances

Chapter Four: The Lady is a Hag: Three Writers and the Transformation of Magic in Sixteenth-Century England

Chapter Five: Hags on Film: Contemporary Echoes of the Early Modern Wicked Witch

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Heidi Breuer teaches at California State University, San Marcos

Reviews

'There is much to recommend in this book. It is engagingly written, even when dealing with difficult concepts, and the linking of medieval with modern representations of magic is fascinating, especially because many students are first attracted to studying magic because of modern TV shows or novels ... Overall, this is a stimulating and accessible contribution to a growing field, and has much to interest historians of medieval and early modern magic.' -- Reviews in History