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The Transformations of Magic : Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance /

This book 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. -- Provided by publisher.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Klaassen, Frank F.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2013]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Magic and natural philosophy
  • Scholastic image magic before 1500
  • Some apparent exceptions : image magic or necromancy? The Ars notoria and the Sworn book of honorius
  • The magic of demons and angels
  • Sixteenth-century collections of magic texts
  • Medieval ritual magic and Renaissance magic.