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Transformations of Magic:

Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance
  • ISBN-13: 9780271056272
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Frank Klaassen
  • Price: AUD $75.99
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  • Local release date: 01/05/2012
  • Format: Paperback (230.00mm X 150.00mm) 280 pages Weight: 450g
  • Categories: Alternative belief systems [HRQ]
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Explores two principal genres of illicit learned magic in late medieval manuscripts: image magic, which could be interpreted and justified in scholastic terms, and ritual magic, which could not.


Contents

Preface

Introduction

Part I: The Apothecary's Dilemma

1 Magic and Natural Philosophy

2 Scholastic Image Magic Before 1500

3 Some Apparent Exceptions: Image Magic or Necromancy?

Part II: Brother John's Dilemma

4 The Ars notoria and the Sworn Book of Honorius

5 The Magic of Demons and Angels

Part III: Magic After 1580

6 Sixteenth-Century Collections of Magic Texts

7 Medieval Ritual Magic and Renaissance Magic

Notes

Bibliography

Index


The Transformations of Magic is an inspiring and innovative work of scholarship on illicit learned magic. It sheds new light on problems with the transmission and transformation of magical traditions in a systematic manner. But more than this, it opens up important new vistas of inquiry for scholars interested in the longue durée of ritual magical texts, and suggests that more work is required on the complex, culturally productive relationship between experience, discernment, ritual technique, and textuality in Western magic.”

—Egil Asprem, Correspondences

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