In the introduction to this collection, Dave Evans reveals that its inception lay in his wonder that Ronald Hutton’s seminal hist­ory of modern pagan witchcraft was already 10 years old. In many ways, Triumph of the Moon has been so influential in academic and neo-pagan circles that for those of us whose interest in such matters burgeoned only in the years after its publication, it is difficult to conceive of an intell­ectual landscape in which it did not exist.

Thus, a volume celebrating Hutton’s achievement makes sense both as a tribute to the work itself and as a mark of how far the field has progressed since then.