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Picatrix - A Medieval Treatise On Astral Magic

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 An English translation, with accompanying introduction, commentary, and notes, of the medieval treatise on astrological magic known as Picatrix, a guide for constructing magical talismans, mixing magical compounds, summoning planetary spirits, and determining astrological conditions.
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Magic In The Modern World - Strategies Of Repression And Legitimization

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 A collection of essays on various aspects of the position of magic in the modern world. Essays explore the ways in which modernity has been defined in explicit opposition to magic and superstition, and the ways in which modern proponents of magic have worked to legitimate their practices.
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Speculum Lapidum - A Renaissance Treatise On The Healing Properties Of Gemstones

by Camillo Leonardi

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 A full translation of Camillo Leonardi's Speculum Lapidum, with an introduction and annotations. Examines the role that medical astrology and astral magic played in the life of an Italian court in the early modern period.
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Kabbalah And Sex Magic - A Mythical-Ritual Genealogy

by Marla (University At Buffalo) Segol

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 Traces the evolution of a Hebrew microcosm that models the interaction of human and divine bodies at the heart of both kabbalah and some forms of Western sex magic. Focuses on Jewish esoteric and medical sources from the fifth to the twelfth century from Byzantium, Persia, Iberia, and southern France.
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Rewriting Magic - An Exegesis Of The Visionary Autobiography Of A Fourteenth-Century French Monk

by Claire (Rice University) Fanger

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 Examines the text and background of The Flowers of Heavenly Teaching, an autobiography by the fourteenth-century Benedictine monk John of Morigny. Explores how the author negotiated the categories of magic and heresy in relation to Christianity.
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Making Magic In Elizabethan England - Two Early Modern Vernacular Books Of Magic

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 Examines two anonymous manuscripts of magic produced in Elizabethan England: the Antiphoner Notebook and the Boxgrove Manual. Explores how scribes assembled these texts within wider cultural developments surrounding early modern forms of magic.
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The Long Life Of Magical Objects - A Study In The Solomonic Tradition

by Allegra ((Independent Scholar)) Iafrate

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 Examines a series of powerful artifacts traditionally associated with King Solomon, largely via extra-canonical textual sources--Solomonâ€™s ring, bottles to contain evil forces, the so-called Solomonâ€™s knot, a shamir, and a flying carpet--and traces their varying cultural resonances.
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Icons Of Power - Ritual Practices In Late Antiquity

by Naomi (University Of California, Davis) Janowitz

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 Janowitz sifts through the polemics to make sense of the daunting mosaic of religious belief and practice in Late Antiquity. Janowitz reveals how ritual practitioners held common assumptions about why their rituals worked and how to perform them. Icons of Power makes an important contribution to our understanding of society in Late Antiquity.
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Invoking Angels - Theurgic Ideas And Practices, Thirteenth To Sixteenth Centuries

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 A collection of essays examining medieval and early modern texts aimed at performing magic or receiving illumination via the mediation of angels. Includes discussion of Jewish, Christian and Muslim texts.
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Unlocked Books - Manuscripts Of Learned Magic In The Medieval Libraries Of Central Europe

by Benedek (Budapest University Of Technology And Economics) Lang

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 Presents and analyzes texts of learned magic written in medieval Central Europe (Poland, Bohemia, and Hungary), and attempts to identify their authors, readers, and collectors.
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Disenchanting Albert The Great - The Life And Afterlife Of A Medieval Magician

by S. J., David J. (Associate Professor Of History, Georgetown) Collins

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Forbidden Rites - A Necromancerâ€™S Manual Of The Fifteenth Century

by Richard Kieckhefer

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Azrael - Encounters With The Angel Of Death In Islamicate Thought And Culture

by Dunja (Independent) Rasic

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Forbidden Rites - A Necromancer'S Manual Of The Fifteenth Century

by Richard Kieckhefer

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Sorcery Or Science? - Contesting Knowledge And Practice In West African Sufi Texts

by Ariela (Elon University) Marcus-Sells

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 Examines the works of two Sufi Muslim scholars, Sidi al-Mukhtar al-Kunti (d. 1811) and his son Sidi Muhammad (d. 1826), focusing on their cosmology and metaphysics of the realm of the unseen, in relation to the history of magical discourses within the Hellenistic and Arabo-Islamic worlds.
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Sorcery Or Science? - Contesting Knowledge And Practice In West African Sufi Texts

by Ariela (Elon University) Marcus-Sells

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 Examines the works of two Sufi Muslim scholars, Sidi al-Mukhtar al-Kunti (d. 1811) and his son Sidi Muhammad (d. 1826), focusing on their cosmology and metaphysics of the realm of the unseen, in relation to the history of magical discourses within the Hellenistic and Arabo-Islamic worlds.
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Medicine, Religion, And Magic In Early Stuart England - Richard Napier'S Medical Practice

by Ofer (Director Of Technology (Cio), Clalit Health Services) Hadass

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 Explores the work of the astrologer-physician and Anglican rector Richard Napier (1559-1634). Examines Napierâ€™s medical and magical practices in their larger context and shows how the physician incorporated both astral and ritual magic into his medicine.
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Kabbalah And Sex Magic - A Mythical-Ritual Genealogy

by Marla (University At Buffalo) Segol

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 Traces the evolution of a Hebrew microcosm that models the interaction of human and divine bodies at the heart of both kabbalah and some forms of Western sex magic. Focuses on Jewish esoteric and medical sources from the fifth to the twelfth century from Byzantium, Persia, Iberia, and southern France.
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Making Magic In Elizabethan England - Two Early Modern Vernacular Books Of Magic

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 Examines two anonymous manuscripts of magic produced in Elizabethan England: the Antiphoner Notebook and the Boxgrove Manual. Explores how scribes assembled these texts within wider cultural developments surrounding early modern forms of magic.
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The Long Life Of Magical Objects - A Study In The Solomonic Tradition

by Allegra ((Independent Scholar)) Iafrate

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 Examines a series of powerful artifacts traditionally associated with King Solomon, largely via extra-canonical textual sources--Solomonâ€™s ring, bottles to contain evil forces, the so-called Solomonâ€™s knot, a shamir, and a flying carpet--and traces their varying cultural resonances.
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Medicine, Religion, And Magic In Early Stuart England - Richard Napier'S Medical Practice

by Ofer (Director Of Technology (Cio), Clalit Health Services) Hadass

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 Explores the work of the astrologer-physician and Anglican rector Richard Napier (1559-1634). Examines Napierâ€™s medical and magical practices in their larger context and shows how the physician incorporated both astral and ritual magic into his medicine.
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Magic In The Modern World - Strategies Of Repression And Legitimization

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 A collection of essays on various aspects of the position of magic in the modern world. Essays explore the ways in which modernity has been defined in explicit opposition to magic and superstition, and the ways in which modern proponents of magic have worked to legitimate their practices.
ENGLISH

Rewriting Magic - An Exegesis Of The Visionary Autobiography Of A Fourteenth-Century French Monk

by Claire (Rice University) Fanger

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 Examines the text and background of The Flowers of Heavenly Teaching, an autobiography by the fourteenth-century Benedictine monk John of Morigny. Explores how the author negotiated the categories of magic and heresy in relation to Christianity.
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Magic In The Cloister - Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, And Occult Approaches To The Medieval Universe

by Sophie (University College London) Page

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 Utilizes the collection of magic texts from the late Middle Ages at St. Augustine's, Canterbury, to examine the orthodoxy of magical approaches to the medieval universe and to show how it was possible to combine magical studies with a monastic vocation.
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