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
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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
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
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