Witches, Druids and King Arthur

I know, it's shocking I'd read a book with this title. Nobody ever would have guessed. I quite enjoyed it. A collection of essays ranging from King Arthur to paganism in late antiquity to Lewis and Tolkien to modern Druidry and witchcraft. A lot of footnotes too. I like notes. Sometimes it even makes me go to the sources used. Okay, maybe often, if I like the book. It also has a pretty cover (which didn't help with the scaring people away from me on the bus bit). Very worth it for anyone interested in the subject matter.

One of Professor Hutton's more scatalogical books, this boasts a range of essays touching on subjects as diverse as Lewis and Tolkien's differing approaches to classical paganism in their respective works, to the modern activist King Arthur. It's an interesting read - my favourite essay was on Neoplatonism, but that's just me!

Biographical in parts, this book does not hang together nearly as well as his earlier works. Saying that, it is still well worth reading, not only for the information about the influence of early Christianity on Paganism, but for the author's own reflections on his work and the way it is received.