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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. Exp...Lees meer
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
Explores two principal genres of illicit learned magic in late medieval manuscripts: image magic, which could be interpreted and justified in scholast...Lees meer
In this provocative book, Marla Segol explores the development of the kabbalistic cosmology underlying Western sex magic. Drawing extensively on Jewis...Lees meer
Presents and analyzes texts of learned magic written in medieval Central Europe (Poland, Bohemia, and Hungary), and attempts to identify their authors...Lees meer
Explores the practice of alchemy in the context of the religious and political tensions in late Elizabethan and early Stuart England, and the use of o...Lees meer
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
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
In the Middle Ages, textual amulets--short texts written on parchment or paper and worn on the body--were thought to protect the bearer against enemie...Lees meer
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
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
Janowitz sifts through the polemics to make sense of the daunting mosaic of religious belief and practice in Late Antiquity. Janowitz reveals how ritu...Lees meer
Explores the work of the astrologer-physician and Anglican rector Richard Napier (1559-1634). Examines Napier's medical and magical practices in their...Lees meer
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
A manual for constructing talismans, mixing magical compounds, summoning planetary spirits, and determining astrological conditions, Picatrix is a cor...Lees meer
The archangel Azrael enforces the divine command that all living things must return to God in death. The very word islām implies submission to God's w...Lees meer
Janowitz sifts through the polemics to make sense of the daunting mosaic of religious belief and practice in Late Antiquity. Janowitz reveals how ritu...Lees meer
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
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...Lees meer
In the religious systems of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Mediterranean, gods and demigods were neither abstract nor distant, but communicated w...Lees meer
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