Magic in History. Magic in the Cloister : : Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe / / Sophie Page.
During the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries a group of monks with occult interests donated what became a remarkable collection of more than thirty magic texts to the library of the Benedictine abbey of St. Augustine's in Canterbury. The monks collected texts that provided positive...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2015] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Magic in History
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 6 illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Monks and their magic texts at St. Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury
- 2 Natural magic: The basilisk and the Lodestone
- 3 The liber vaccae: magical uses of monstrous creations
- 4 Image magic: harnessing power in the harmonious universe
- 5 The liber de essentia spirituum: magic, revelation, and fellowship with spirits
- 6 The ars notoria and its monastic audience
- Epilogue: John Dee, St. Augustine’s manuscripts, and renaissance magic
- Appendix 1 Translation of the Glossulae super Librum imaginum lunae, Oxford, Corpus Christi College 125, fols. 109r–110v
- Appendix 2 Translation of the Liber de essentia spirituum, Oxford, Corpus Christi College 125, fols. 169–173
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index