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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Klaassen, Frank F.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2013]
Series:Magic in history.
Subjects:
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.