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Speculum Lapidum
A Renaissance Treatise on the Healing Properties of Gemstones
Inbunden, 2023
196 kr
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In early modern Europe precious and semiprecious stones were valued not only for their beauty and rarity but also for their medical and magical properties. Lorenzo de’ Medici, Philip II of Spain, and Popes Leo X and Clement VII were all treated with expensive potions incorporating ground gems such …
Making Magic in Elizabethan England
Two Early Modern Vernacular Books of Magic
Häftad, 2019
350 kr
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This volume presents editions of two fascinating anonymous and untitled manuscripts of magic produced in Elizabethan England: the Antiphoner Notebook and the Boxgrove Manual. Frank Klaassen uses these texts, which he argues are representative of the overwhelming majority of magical practitioners, …
Long Life of Magical Objects
A Study in the Solomonic Tradition
Inbunden, 2019
476 kr
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This book explores a series of powerful artifacts associated with King Solomon via legendary or extracanonical textual sources. Tracing their cultural resonance throughout history, art historian Allegra Iafrate delivers exciting insights into these objects and interrogates the ways in which magic …
Transformations of Magic
Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance
Häftad, 2013
464 kr
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In this original, provocative, well-reasoned, and thoroughly documented book, Frank Klaassen proposes that two principal genres of illicit learned magic occur in late medieval manuscripts: image magic, which could be interpreted and justified in scholastic terms, and ritual magic (in its extreme …
Kabbalah and Sex Magic
A Mythical-Ritual Genealogy
Av Marla Segol
Inbunden, 2021
465 kr
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In this provocative book, Marla Segol explores the development of the kabbalistic cosmology underlying Western sex magic. Drawing extensively on Jewish myth and ritual, Segol tells the powerful story of the relationship between the divine and the human body in late antique Jewish esotericism, in …
Conjuring Spirits
Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic
Häftad, 1998
441 kr
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Conjuring Spirits contains both general surveys and analyses of magical texts and manuscripts by distinguished scholars in a variety of disciplines. Included are chapters by Richard Kieckhefer and Robert Mathiesen on the Sworn Book of Honorius, Michael Camille on the Ars Notoria, John B. Friedman …
Magic in the Modern World
Strategies of Repression and Legitimization
Av Edward Bever, Randall Styers
Häftad, 2018
464 kr
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This collection of essays considers the place of magic in the modern world, first by exploring the ways in which modernity has been defined in explicit opposition to magic and superstition, and then by illuminating how modern proponents of magic have worked to legitimize their practices through an …
Forbidden Rites
A Necromancer’s Manual of the Fifteenth Century
Häftad, 1998
421 kr
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Preserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich is a manuscript that few scholars have noticed and that no one in modern times has treated with the seriousness it deserves. Forbidden Rites consists of an edition of this medieval Latin text with a full commentary, including detailed analysis of …
Bathhouse at Midnight
An Historical Survey of Magic and Divination in Russia
Av W. F. Ryan
Häftad, 1999
556 kr
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The title of this book refers to the classic time and place for magic, witchcraft, and divination in Russia. The Bathhouse at Midnight, by one of the world's foremost experts on the subject, surveys all forms of magic, both learned and popular, in Russia from the fifth to the eighteenth century. …
Icons of Power
Ritual Practices in Late Antiquity
Inbunden, 2002
1151 kr
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In the waning years of the Roman Empire, Jews, Christians, and pagans alike used rituals to bridge the gap between the human and the divine. Depending on one’s point of view, however, such rituals could be labeled negatively as "magic" or positively as "theurgy." This has led to numerous problems …
Battling Demons
Witchcraft, Heresy, and Reform in the Late Middle Ages
Häftad, 2002
476 kr
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The fifteenth century is more than any other the century of the persecution of witches. So wrote Johan Huizinga more than eighty years ago in his classic Autumn of the Middle Ages. Although Huizinga was correct in his observation, modern readers have tended to focus on the more spectacular …
Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World
Av Scott Noegel, Scott B. Noegel m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
453 kr
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In the religious systems of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Mediterranean, gods and demigods were neither abstract nor distant, but communicated with mankind through signs and active intervention. Men and women were thus eager to interpret, appeal to, and even control the gods and their agents. …
Binding Words
Textual Amulets in the Middle Ages
Häftad, 2006
679 kr
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In the Middle Ages, textual amulets—short texts written on parchment or paper and worn on the body—were thought to protect the bearer against enemies, to heal afflictions caused by demonic invasions, and to bring the wearer good fortune. In Binding Words, Don C. Skemer provides the first …
Strange Revelations
Magic, Poison, and Sacrilege in Louis XIV's France
Inbunden, 2007
1445 kr
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The Affair of the Poisons was the greatest court scandal of the seventeenth century. From 1679 to 1682 the French crown investigated more than 400 people—including Louis XIV’s official mistress and members of the highest-ranking circles at court—for sensational crimes. In Strange Revelations, Lynn …
Strange Revelations
Magic, Poison, and Sacrilege in Louis XIV's France
Häftad, 2007
528 kr
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The Affair of the Poisons was the greatest court scandal of the seventeenth century. From 1679 to 1682 the French crown investigated more than 400 people—including Louis XIV’s official mistress and members of the highest-ranking circles at court—for sensational crimes. In Strange Revelations, Lynn …
Unlocked Books
Manuscripts of Learned Magic in the Medieval Libraries of Central Europe
Av Benedek Láng
Häftad, 2008
573 kr
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During the Middle Ages, the Western world translated the incredible Arabic scientific corpus and imported it into Western culture: Arabic philosophy, optics, and physics, as well as alchemy, astrology, and talismanic magic. The line between the scientific and the magical was blurred. According to …
Alchemical Belief
Occultism in the Religious Culture of Early Modern England
Häftad, 2011
674 kr
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What did it mean to believe in alchemy in early modern England? In this book, Bruce Janacek considers alchemical beliefs in the context of the writings of Thomas Tymme, Robert Fludd, Francis Bacon, Sir Kenelm Digby, and Elias Ashmole. Rather than examine alchemy from a scientific or medical …
Invoking Angels
Theurgic Ideas and Practices, Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries
Häftad, 2012
533 kr
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Invoking Angels brings together a tightly themed collection of essays on late medieval and early modern texts concerned with the role of angels in the cosmos, focusing on angelic rituals and spiritual cosmologies. Collectively, these essays tie medieval angel magic texts more clearly to medieval …
Transformations of Magic
Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance
Inbunden, 2013
891 kr
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In this original, provocative, well-reasoned, and thoroughly documented book, Frank Klaassen proposes that two principal genres of illicit learned magic occur in late medieval manuscripts: image magic, which could be interpreted and justified in scholastic terms, and ritual magic (in its extreme …
Icons of Power
Ritual Practices in Late Antiquity
Häftad, 2002
407 kr
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In the waning years of the Roman Empire, Jews, Christians, and pagans alike used rituals to bridge the gap between the human and the divine. Depending on one’s point of view, however, such rituals could be labeled negatively as "magic" or positively as "theurgy." This has led to numerous problems …
Magic in the Cloister
Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe
Av Sophie Page
Häftad, 2013
499 kr
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During the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries a group of monks with occult interests donated what became a remarkable collection of more than thirty magic texts to the library of the Benedictine abbey of St. Augustine's in Canterbury. The monks collected texts that provided positive …
Rewriting Magic
An Exegesis of the Visionary Autobiography of a Fourteenth-Century French Monk
Häftad, 2017
395 kr
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In Rewriting Magic, Claire Fanger explores a fourteenth-century text called The Flowers of Heavenly Teaching. Written by a Benedictine monk named John of Morigny, the work all but disappeared from the historical record, and it is only now coming to light again in multiple versions and copies. While …
Magic in the Modern World
Strategies of Repression and Legitimization
Av Edward Bever, Randall Styers
Inbunden, 2017
934 kr
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This collection of essays considers the place of magic in the modern world, first by exploring the ways in which modernity has been defined in explicit opposition to magic and superstition, and then by illuminating how modern proponents of magic have worked to legitimize their practices through an …
Medicine, Religion, and Magic in Early Stuart England
Richard Napier's Medical Practice
Av Ofer Hadass
Inbunden, 2018
467 kr
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The astrologer-physician Richard Napier (1559-1634) was not only a man of practical science and medicine but also a master of occult arts and a devout parish rector who purportedly held conversations with angels. This new interpretation of Napier reveals him to be a coherent and methodical man …
Medicine, Religion, and Magic in Early Stuart England
Richard Napier's Medical Practice
Av Ofer Hadass
Häftad, 2019
478 kr
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The astrologer-physician Richard Napier (1559-1634) was not only a man of practical science and medicine but also a master of occult arts and a devout parish rector who purportedly held conversations with angels. This new interpretation of Napier reveals him to be a coherent and methodical man …
Picatrix
A Medieval Treatise on Astral Magic
Av Dan Attrell
Inbunden, 2019
440 kr
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A manual for constructing talismans, mixing magical compounds, summoning planetary spirits, and determining astrological conditions, Picatrix is a cornerstone of Western esotericism. It offers important insights not only into occult practices and beliefs but also into the transmission of magical …
Long Life of Magical Objects
A Study in the Solomonic Tradition
Häftad, 2021
464 kr
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This book explores a series of powerful artifacts associated with King Solomon via legendary or extracanonical textual sources. Tracing their cultural resonance throughout history, art historian Allegra Iafrate delivers exciting insights into these objects and interrogates the ways in which magic …
Kabbalah and Sex Magic
A Mythical-Ritual Genealogy
Av Marla Segol
Häftad, 2022
435 kr
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In this provocative book, Marla Segol explores the development of the kabbalistic cosmology underlying Western sex magic. Drawing extensively on Jewish myth and ritual, Segol tells the powerful story of the relationship between the divine and the human body in late antique Jewish esotericism, in …
Sorcery or Science?
Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts
Inbunden, 2022
556 kr
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Sorcery or Science? examines how two Sufi Muslim theologians who rose to prominence in the western Sahara Desert in the late eighteenth century, Sīdi al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī (d. 1811) and his son and successor, Sīdi Muḥammad al-Kuntī (d. 1826), decisively influenced the development of Sufi Muslim …
Sorcery or Science?
Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts
Häftad, 2023
516 kr
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Sorcery or Science? examines how two Sufi Muslim theologians who rose to prominence in the western Sahara Desert in the late eighteenth century, Sīdi al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī (d. 1811) and his son and successor, Sīdi Muḥammad al-Kuntī (d. 1826), decisively influenced the development of Sufi Muslim …
