Rewriting Magic

Claire Fanger

• Paperback | Engels | Magic in History
• In Rewriting Magic , Claire Fanger explores a fourteenth-century text called The Flowers of Heavenly Teaching . Written by a Benedictine monk named Jo... Lees meer

Alchemical Belief

Bruce Janacek

• Hardcover | Engels | Magic in History
• What did it mean to believe in alchemy in early modern England? In this book, Bruce Janacek considers alchemical beliefs in the context of the writing... Lees meer

The Transformations of Magic

Frank Klaassen

• Paperback | Engels | Magic in History
• In this original, provocative, well-reasoned, and thoroughly documented book, Frank Klaassen proposes that two principal genres of illicit learned mag... Lees meer

Kabbalah and Sex Magic

Marla Segol

• Paperback | Engels | Magic in History | nr. 23
• In this provocative book, Marla Segol explores the development of the kabbalistic cosmology underlying Western sex magic. Drawing extensively on Jewis... Lees meer

Alchemical Belief

Bruce Janacek

• Paperback | Engels | Magic in History
• What did it mean to believe in alchemy in early modern England? In this book, Bruce Janacek considers alchemical beliefs in the context of the writing... Lees meer

Ritual Magic

Elizabeth M Butler

• Paperback | Engels | Magic in History
• Occult knowledge and practice can be divided into three main branches: astrology, which aims to guide human fortune by means of foreknowledge; alchemy... Lees meer

Forbidden Rites

Richard Kieckhefer

• Paperback | Engels | Magic in History
• Preserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich is a manuscript that few scholars have noticed and that no one in modern times has treated with the ... Lees meer

Making Magic in Elizabethan England

• Paperback | Engels | Magic in History
• This volume presents editions of two fascinating anonymous and untitled manuscripts of magic produced in Elizabethan England: the Antiphoner Notebook ... Lees meer

The Fortunes of Faust

Elizabeth M Butler

• Paperback | Engels | Magic in History
• This work is a powerful and astute examination of the connection between magic in literature and magic in history. It traces the evolution of the Faus... Lees meer

Magic in History

W F Ryan

• Paperback | Engels | Magic in History
• The title of this book refers to the classic time and place for magic, witchcraft, and divination in Russia. The Bathhouse at Midnight , by one of the... Lees meer

Icons of Power

Naomi Janowitz

• Hardcover | Engels | Magic in History
• In the waning years of the Roman Empire, Jews, Christians, and pagans alike used rituals to bridge the gap between the human and the divine. Depending... Lees meer

Kabbalah and Sex Magic

Marla Segol

• Hardcover | Engels | Magic in History | nr. 23
• In this provocative book, Marla Segol explores the development of the kabbalistic cosmology underlying Western sex magic. Drawing extensively on Jewis... Lees meer

Medicine, Religion, and Magic in Early Stuart England

Ofer Hadass

• Paperback | Engels | Magic in History
• The astrologer-physician Richard Napier (1559-1634) was not only a man of practical science and medicine but also a master of occult arts and a devout... Lees meer

Sorcery or Science?

Ariela Marcus-Sells

• Paperback | Engels | Magic in History
• Sorcery or Science? examines how two Sufi Muslim theologians who rose to prominence in the western Sahara Desert in the late eighteenth century, Sīdi ... Lees meer

Picatrix

• Hardcover | Engels | Magic in History
• A manual for constructing talismans, mixing magical compounds, summoning planetary spirits, and determining astrological conditions, Picatrix is a cor... Lees meer

Making Magic in Elizabethan England

• Hardcover | Engels | Magic in History
• This volume presents editions of two fascinating anonymous and untitled manuscripts of magic produced in Elizabethan England: the Antiphoner Notebook ... Lees meer

Icons of Power

Naomi Janowitz

• Paperback | Engels | Magic in History
• In the waning years of the Roman Empire, Jews, Christians, and pagans alike used rituals to bridge the gap between the human and the divine. Depending... Lees meer

Magic in the Modern World

• Paperback | Engels | Magic in History
• This collection of essays considers the place of magic in the modern world, first by exploring the ways in which modernity has been defined in explici... Lees meer

Speculum Lapidum

Camillo Leonardi

• Hardcover | Engels | Magic in History
• In early modern Europe precious and semiprecious stones were valued not only for their beauty and rarity but also for their medical and magical proper... Lees meer

Conjuring Spirits

Fanger Claire

• Paperback | Engels | Magic in History
• Conjuring Spirits contains both general surveys and analyses of magical texts and manuscripts by distinguished scholars in a variety of disciplines. I... Lees meer

Battling Demons

Michael D Bailey

• Paperback | Engels | Magic in History
• The fifteenth century is more than any other the century of the persecution of witches. So wrote Johan Huizinga more than eighty years ago in his clas... Lees meer