by Claire Fanger (Author), Claire Fanger (Author)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 308
Edition: 1st PB Edition
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 01 Sep 1998
ISBN 10: 9780271025
ISBN 13: 9780271025179
Well illustrated throughout and with a very useful bibliography and index, Fanger's volume adds considerable weight to the need to study magic as part of the broader religious and scientific discoures of the later Middle Ages.
--Gary K. Waite, Sixteenth Century Journal
Claire Fanger is a visiting faculty member at the University of Western Ontario. She is the co-editor of The Latin Verses in the Confessio Amantis (1991).
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