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Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic

Michael Camille

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Conjuring Spirits contains both general surveys and analyses of magical texts and manuscripts by distinguished scholars in a variety of disciplines. Included are chapters by Richard Kieckhefer and Robert Mathiesen on the "Sworn Book of Honorius," Michael Camille on the Ars Notoria, John B. Friedman on the Secretum Philosophorum, Nicholas Watson on the McMaster text, and Elizabeth Wade on Lullian divination. The work also includes Juris Lidaka's edition of the Liber de Angelis, and an overview of late medieval English ritual manuscripts by Frank Klaassen. This book will be invaluable for scholars and other readers interested in ritual magic in the later middle ages.

Language: English

Pages: 308

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penn State University Press

Release: September 01, 1998

ISBN: 0271025174

ISBN 13: 9780271025179

Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic

Michael Camille

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Conjuring Spirits contains both general surveys and analyses of magical texts and manuscripts by distinguished scholars in a variety of disciplines. Included are chapters by Richard Kieckhefer and Robert Mathiesen on the "Sworn Book of Honorius," Michael Camille on the Ars Notoria, John B. Friedman on the Secretum Philosophorum, Nicholas Watson on the McMaster text, and Elizabeth Wade on Lullian divination. The work also includes Juris Lidaka's edition of the Liber de Angelis, and an overview of late medieval English ritual manuscripts by Frank Klaassen. This book will be invaluable for scholars and other readers interested in ritual magic in the later middle ages.

Language: English

Pages: 308

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penn State University Press

Release: September 01, 1998

ISBN: 0271025174

ISBN 13: 9780271025179

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