Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic (Magic in History)
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (532 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0271025174 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 308 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Friedman on the Secretum Philosophorum, Nicholas Watson on the McMaster text, and Elizabeth Wade on Lullian divination. This book will be invaluable for scholars and other readers interested in ritual magic in the later Middle Ages.. The work also includes Juris Lidaka's edition of the Liber de Angelis, and an overview of late medieval English ritual manuscripts by Frank Klaassen. 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
Claire Fanger is a visiting faculty member at the University of Western Ontario. She is the co-editor of The Latin Verses in the "Confessio Amantis" (1991).
“Well illustrated throughout and with a very useful bibliography and index, Fanger’s volume adds considerable weight to the need to study magic as part of the broader religious and scientific discoures of the later Middle Ages.”—Gary K. Waite, Sixteenth Century Journal
Martin D Davis said Great read. This is really pretty excellent. I'm surprised the history of magic isn't touched on more often in general European history classes that are required in high school and college. Not only is it generally interesting (more interesting than say, learning about the successions of popes and about petty civil wars - at least to myself), but it gives a rare insight into the way the minds of people worked at the time, their hopes, their desires, and their fears, as well as gives a different viewpoint on religion of the day as a whole.This book is another great book in the Magic in History series. It. Brian Cheong said Start with This --- You Won't Be Led Astray. With many books on summoning spirits available today, which you can trust to be "real stuff"? This one! This book is a scholarly look of the topic and careful examination of the stuff that are now in well-known museums such as the British Museum.After reading this, I am more confident of telling which books out there are inaccurate or instances where stuff are just added to make those rubbish books sell better.If you are interested in getting a glimpse of how summoning spirits was done in medieval times, this book is a must-read.. Good Overview of Real Magic Stuff A Customer With countless imaginative, nonsensical magical texts out there and new-age crap, where should one start to search for real serious stuff? This book is it. The research done is admirable and the stuff mentioned were really in use. Gives one a true view of what grimoires are and how they were used.This is a very good book to start for anyone looking for real stuff.