Magic in the Cloister: Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe (Magic in History)
9780271060330, 2013015330, 0271060336
During the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries a group of monks with occult interests donated what became a r
Table of contents : COVER Front Series Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Notes to Introduction Chapter 1: Monks and their Magic Texts at St. Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury Notes to Chapter 1 Chapter 2: Natural Magic: The Basilisk and the Lodestone Notes to Chapter 2 Chapter 3: The Liber vaccae: Magical Uses of Monstrous Creations Notes to Chapter 3 Chapter 4: Image Magic: Harnessing Power in the Harmonious Universe Notes to Chapter 4 Chapter 5: The Liber de essentia spirituum: Magic, Revelation, and Fellowship with Spirits Notes to Chapter 5 Chapter 6: The Ars notoria and Its Monastic Audience Notes to Chapter 6 Epilogue: John Dee, St. Augustine’s Manuscripts, and Renaissance Magic Notes to Epilogue Appendix 1: Translation of the Glossulae super Librum imaginum lunae Notes to Appendix 1 Appendix 2: Translation of the Liber de essentia spirituum Notes to Appendix 2 Notes Selected Bibliography Index COVER Back