Magic in the Middle Ages

by Kieckhefer, Richard

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A fascinating study of natural and demonic magic within the broad context of medieval culture.

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Full title :Magic in the Middle Ages / Richard Kieckhefer.

Summary

A fascinating study of natural and demonic magic within the broad context of medieval culture.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014.
Edition:2nd edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

Notes

Previous edition: 1989.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xvi, 219 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781139923484, 113992348X, 9781316121924, 1316121925, 9781316129555, 1316129551, 9781316131732, 1316131734, 1107076315, 9781107076310, 1107431824, 9781107431829, 1316133915, 9781316133910, 1316128466, 9781316128466, 1316130649, 9781316130643
oclc:ocn889521066
LC Classification:BF1593
Dewey Decimal:130.940902

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Foreword to the Canto edition; Preface; 1 INTRODUCTION: MAGIC AS A CROSSROADS; Two case studies; Definitions of magic; Plan for this book; 2 THE CLASSICAL INHERITANCE; Scientific and philosophical literature; Fictional literature; The Bible and biblical apocrypha; Magic, early Christianity, and the Graeco-Roman world; 3 THE TWILIGHT OF PAGANISM: MAGIC IN NORSE AND IRISH CULTURE; Conversion and pagan survivals; Runic inscriptions; The Norse sagas; Irish literature; 4 THE COMMON TRADITION OF MEDIEVAL MAGIC.

Practitioners of magic: healers and divinersMedical magic: herbs and animals; Charms: prayers, blessings, and adjurations; Protective amulets and talismans; Sorcery: the misuse of medical and protective magic; Divination and popular astrology; The art of trickery; 5 THE ROMANCE OF MAGIC IN COURTLY CULTURE; Magicians at court; Magical objects: automatons and gems; Magic in the romances and related literature; 6 ARABIC LEARNING AND THE OCCULT SCIENCES; The transformations of European intellectual life; The practice of astrology; Principles of astrology; Astral magic; Alchemy.

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