{"product_id":"a-history-of-crossroads-in-early-modern-culture-9781474499835","title":"A History of Crossroads in Early Modern Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eFocusing on the crossroads in the early modern period, this book deals with the literature and history of the physical crossroads: it's magical and religious encounters, rituals of transformation, binding of undesirable spirits, siting of gallows, associations with music, and links to ancient cosmology. Physical crossroads have been culturally vital sites where forces human, demonic and divine were felt to converge. Crossroads have seemed to render the boundaries between these spheres negotiable, subject to certain artifice and timing. They gave access to gods and facilitated deals with devils, they were potent sites for rituals intended to influence lovers or harm enemies and provided both a dramatic stage for communal activities and a burial ground for the unwanted dead cast out in ceremonies of the night.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBill Angus is a Senior Lecturer in English at Massey University, New Zealand. He has written extensively on early modern drama and material culture. His books with Edinburgh University Press include \u003ci\u003eMetadrama and the Informer in Shakespeare and Jonson\u003c\/i\u003e (2016), \u003ci\u003eIntelligence and Metadrama in the Early Modern Theatre\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), \u003ci\u003eReading the Road, from Shakespeare's Crossways to Bunyan's Highways\u003c\/i\u003e (2019), co-edited with Lisa Hopkins, and his last monograph, \u003ci\u003eA History of Crossroads in Early Modern Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (2022). His latest edited collection \u003ci\u003ePoison on the Early Modern English Stage\u003c\/i\u003e, co-edited with Kibrina Davey and Lisa Hopkins, was published in 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50394719584530,"sku":"9781474499835","price":37.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_024bc0b7-d8ba-421e-995e-8d6ef1e594dd.jpg?v=1729014766","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-history-of-crossroads-in-early-modern-culture-9781474499835","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}