Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time : : The Occult in Pre-Modern Sciences, Medicine, Literature, Religion, and Astrology / / ed. by Albrecht Classen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Ayanna, Amiri,; Azuela, Cristina,; Benati, Chiara,; Berthelot, Anne,; Clason, Christopher R.,; Classen, Albrecht,; Coudert, Allison P.,; Fanger, Claire,; Galle, Christoph,; Golan, Nurit,; Jarchow, Kathleen,; Koten, Jiří,; Menaldi, Veronica,; Morewedge, Rosmarie Thee,; O’Leary, Aideen M.,; Peacock, Martha Moffitt,; Pigg, Daniel F.,; Raymond, Dalicia K.,; Tomíček, David,; Tormey, Warren,; Tuczay, Christa Agnes,; Weston, Lisa M. C.,; Willard, Thomas,; Zegura, Elizabeth Chesney,
• HerausgeberIn: Classen, Albrecht,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture , 20
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 757 p.)

There are no clear demarcation lines between magic, astrology, necromancy, medicine, and even sciences in the pre-modern world. Under the umbrella term 'magic,' the contributors to this volume examine a wide range of texts, both literary and religious, both medical and philosophical, in wh...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Magic in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age – Literature, Science, Religion, Philosophy, Music, and Art. An Introduction
• Magical (and Maligned) Metalworkers: Understanding Representations of Early and High Medieval Blacksmiths
• Painted Eyes, Magical Sieves and Carved Runes: Charms for Catching and Punishing Thieves in the Medieval and Early Modern Germanic Tradition
• Constructing the Magical Biography of the Irish Druid Mog Ruith
• Zum Umgang mit Zauberern im Rahmen frühmittelalterlicher Missionsanstrengungen (Dealing with Magicians Within the Framework of Early Medieval Missionizing Efforts)
• Magic and Science: The Portail des libraires, Rouen
• The Magic of Love: Queen Isolde, the Magician Clinschor, and “Seeing” in Gottfried’s Tristan and Wolfram’s Parzival
• Magical Gifts in Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan und Isolde and the Rejection of Magic
• Was Eustace Diabolical? Magic and Devilry in Le roman de Wistasse le moine
• Merlin, or, a Prophet Turning Magician
• The Book of Zabulon – A Quest for Hidden Secrets: Intertextuality and Magical Genealogy in Middle High German Literature, with an Emphasis on Reinfried von Braunschweig
• Miracles and Magic: Necromantic Practices Found in Cantiga 125
• Magic at the Margins: The Mystification of Maugis d’Aigremont
• The Magician at Home with his Family: Comparative Historical Ethnographies of Two Pre- Modern Magicians from Autobiographical Sources: John of Morigny and the Tibetan Monk Milarepa
• Curious Clerks: Image Magic and Chaucerian Poetics
• Representing Magic and Science in The Franklin’s Tale and The Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale: Chaucer’s Exploration of Connected Topics
• Magic in Late Medieval German Literature: The Case of the Good Magician Malagis
• Motives, Means, and a Malevolent Mantel: The Case of Morgan le Fay’s Transgressions in Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur
• Witchcraft, Heinrich Kramer’s Nuremburg Handbook, and Ecclesiasticus: The Construction of the Fifteenth-Century Civic Sorceress
• Magic and Ritual in Late-Medieval and Early-Modern Popular Medicine
• Attempted Murder by Magic: The Sorcerer and His Apprentice in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron 1
• How Magical Was Renaissance Magic?
• Magic in Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen’s Saul and the Witch of Endor
• Heterochronic Representation of Magic in Czech Chapbooks
• Rethinking Max Weber’s Theory of Disenchantment
• Contributors
• Index