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Magic in the Cloister:

Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe
  • ISBN-13: 9780271060347
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Sophie Page
  • Price: AUD $92.99
  • Stock: 1 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 02/12/2013
  • Format: Paperback (240.00mm X 150.00mm) 248 pages Weight: 380g
  • Categories: Alternative belief systems [HRQ]
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Utilizes the collection of magic texts from the late Middle Ages at St. Augustine's, Canterbury, to examine the orthodoxy of magical approaches to the medieval universe and to show how it was possible to combine magical studies with a monastic vocation.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Monks and Their Magic Texts at St. Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury

2 Natural Magic: The Basilisk and the Lodestone

3 The Liber vaccae: Magical Uses of Monstrous Creations

4 Image Magic: Harnessing Power in the Harmonious Universe

5 The Liber de essentia spirituum: Magic, Revelation, and Fellowship with Spirits

6 The Ars notoria and Its Monastic Audience

Epilogue John Dee, St. Augustine’s Manuscripts, and Renaissance Magic

Appendix 1 Translation of the Glossulae super Librum imaginum lunae

Appendix 2 Translation of the Liber de essentia spirituum

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index


“All histories have limits, but the core of this study is full of rich detail and judicious analysis. Page deftly illuminates not just the contents of a major library of medieval magic but also the intriguing intellectual and spiritual contexts in which it took shape.”

—Michael D. Bailey, American Historical Review

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