Francis Young (1)

Author of Magic in Merlin's Realm: A History of Occult Politics in Britain

For other authors named Francis Young, see the disambiguation page.

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About the Author

Francis Young obtained his PhD from Cambridge University and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is the author of twelve books including Edmund: in search of England's lost king (2018).

Works by Francis Young

A History of Exorcism in Catholic Christianity (Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic) (2016) 22 copies

Edmund: In Search of England’s Lost King (2018) 22 copies

Twilight of the Godlings: The Shadowy Beginnings of Britain's Supernatural Beings (2023) 20 copies

Magic as a Political Crime in Medieval and Early Modern England: A History of Sorcery and Treason (International… (2017) 16 copies

A History of Anglican Exorcism: Deliverance and Demonology in Church Ritual (International Library of Historical… (2018) 10 copies

Inferior office? : a history of deacons in the Church of England (2015) 9 copies

Yellow Glass and Other Ghost Stories (2020) 9 copies

A Medieval Book of Magical Stones: The Peterborough Lapidary (2016) 6 copies

Rookwood Family Papers, 1606-1761 (Suffolk Records Society) (2016) 5 copies

Pagans in the early modern Baltic : sixteenth-century ethnographic accounts of Baltic paganism (2022) 5 copies

The Gages of Hengrave and Suffolk Catholicism, 1640-1767 (Catholic Record Society: Monograph Series) (2015) 3 copies

Athassel Priory and the Cult of St. Edmund in medieval Ireland (2020) 3 copies

English Catholics and the Supernatural, 1553-1829 (Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700) (2013) 2 copies

Peterborough Folklore (2017) 2 copies

Suffolk Fairylore (2018) 2 copies

Witchcraft and the modern Roman Catholic church (2022) 2 copies

Catholic East Anglia : a history of the Catholic faith in Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough (2016) 2 copies

The Abbey of Bury St Edmunds : history, legacy and discovery (2016) 1 copy

Divided by historiography? Anglo-Catholics and English Roman Catholics – Francis Young 1 copy

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Twilight of the Godlings: The Shadowy Beginnings of… by Francis Young

This was chosen by Eleanor Parker, Lecturer in Medieval English Literature at Brasenose College, Oxford and columnist at History Today, as one of History Today’s Books of the Year 2023.

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Katharine Briggs Folklore Award

Pagans in the early modern Baltic : sixteenth-century ethnographic accounts of Baltic paganism (Honourable Mention – 2022)

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