Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Ways – Transformation, Binding and Presence
- 1 Axes: Ecstatic Heights and Nightmare Depths
- 2 Magic: Transformation and Self-determination
- 3 Music: Going Down to the Crossroads
- 4 Gods: Appointments with the Divine
- 5 Terminus: The Night, the Crossroads and the Stake
- 6 Literature: Liminal Ground in Early Modern Drama
- 7 Hallowed Roads: Routes to the Crossroads
- 8 Wanderers: The Predicament of a Stranger
- 9 Monsters: ‘Spirits of another sort’
- 10 Protection: The X in the Landscape
- Conclusion: The Parting – Intersections
- Notes
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 November 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Ways – Transformation, Binding and Presence
- 1 Axes: Ecstatic Heights and Nightmare Depths
- 2 Magic: Transformation and Self-determination
- 3 Music: Going Down to the Crossroads
- 4 Gods: Appointments with the Divine
- 5 Terminus: The Night, the Crossroads and the Stake
- 6 Literature: Liminal Ground in Early Modern Drama
- 7 Hallowed Roads: Routes to the Crossroads
- 8 Wanderers: The Predicament of a Stranger
- 9 Monsters: ‘Spirits of another sort’
- 10 Protection: The X in the Landscape
- Conclusion: The Parting – Intersections
- Notes
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2022