The transformations of magic : illicit learned magic in the later Middle Ages and Renaissance /
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.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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University Park :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | Magic in history.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.