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Conjuring Spirits Claire Fanger

Conjuring Spirits By Claire Fanger

Conjuring Spirits by Claire Fanger


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Summary

General surveys and specific analyses of magical texts and manuscripts by scholars in a variety of disciplines. Topics covered include the Sworn Book of Honorius, images in Ars Notoria manuscripts, the Secretum Philosophorum, the Liber Visionum and Lullian divination.

Conjuring Spirits Summary

Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Late Medieval Ritual Magic by Claire Fanger

Contains general surveys and specific analyses of magical texts and manuscripts by scholars in a variety of disciplines. Topics covered include the Sworn Book of Honorius, images in Ars Notoria manuscripts, the Secretum Philosophorum, the Liber Visionum and Lullian divination. The work also contains Juris Lidaka's edition of the Liber de Angelis and an overview of late medieval magical texts, both angelic and demonic, and offers insights into the place of magic in the medieval age.

Table of Contents

Introduction: medieval ritual magic - what it is and why we need to know more about it. Part I Contexts, genres, images: English manuscripts of magic, 1300-1500 - a preliminary survey, Frank Klaassen; The Book of Angels, Rings, Characters and Images of the Planets: - attributed to Osbern Bokenham, Juris Lidaka; safe magic and invisible writing in the Secretum Philosophorum, John B. Friedman; a fragmentary German divination device - medieval analogues and pseudo-Lullian tradition, Elizabeth I. Wade; Visual art in two manuscripts of the Ars Notoria, Michael Camille. Part II Angelic knowledge - the Sworn Book and the Book of Visions: a 13th-century ritual to attain the beatific vision from the Sworn Book of Honorius of Thebes, Robert Mathiesen; John the monk's Book of Visions of the Blessed and Undefiled Virgin Mary, Mother of God - two versions of a newly discovered ritual magic text, Nicholas Watson; Plundering the Egyptian treasure - John the monk's Book of Visions and its relation to the Ars Notoria of Solomon, Claire Fanger; the devil's contemplatives - the Liber Iuratus, the Liber Visionem and the Christian appropriation of Jewish occultism.

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GOR001510415
9780750913829
0750913827
Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Late Medieval Ritual Magic by Claire Fanger
Used - Very Good
Paperback
The History Press Ltd
1999-02-18
408
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