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Forbidden rites : a necromancer's manual of the fifteenth century / Richard Kieckhefer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher number: MWT11611334Language: English, Latin Series: Magic in historyPublication details: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (384 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780271041728
  • 0271041722
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Forbidden rites.DDC classification:
  • 133.4/3 21
LOC classification:
  • BF1593 .K525 1998
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • LB 60000
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Contents:
1. Introduction: Magical Books and Magical Rites -- 2. Munich Handbook of Necromancy: Clm 849 -- 3. Banquets, Horses and Castles: Illusionist Experiments -- 4. Love, Favour and Madness: Psychological Experiments -- 5. Learning Hidden and Future Things: Divinatory Experiments -- 6. Formulas for Commanding Spirits: Conjurations and Exorcisms -- 7. Demons and Daimons: The Spirits Conjured -- 8. Magic of Circles and Spheres -- 9. Conclusion -- Edition of the Necromancer's Handbook in Clm 849, Fols 3r-108v.
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  • digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Summary: 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 seriousness it deserves. Forbidden Rites consists of an edition of this medieval Latin text with a full commentary, including detailed analysis of the text and its contents, discussion of the historical context, translation of representative sections of the text, and comparison with other necromantic texts of the late Middle Ages. The result is the most vivid and readable introduction to medieval magic now available. Like many medieval texts for the use of magicians, this handbook is a miscellany rather than a systematic treatise. It is exceptional, however, in the scope and variety of its contents-prayers and conjurations, rituals of sympathetic magic, procedures involving astral magic, a catalogue of spirits, lengthy ceremonies for consecrating a book of magic, and other materials. With more detail on particular experiments than the famous thirteenth-century Picatrix and more variety than the Thesaurus Necromantiae ascribed to Roger Bacon, the manual is one of the most interesting and important manuscripts of medieval magic that has yet come to light.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 378-379) and index.

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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 seriousness it deserves. Forbidden Rites consists of an edition of this medieval Latin text with a full commentary, including detailed analysis of the text and its contents, discussion of the historical context, translation of representative sections of the text, and comparison with other necromantic texts of the late Middle Ages. The result is the most vivid and readable introduction to medieval magic now available. Like many medieval texts for the use of magicians, this handbook is a miscellany rather than a systematic treatise. It is exceptional, however, in the scope and variety of its contents-prayers and conjurations, rituals of sympathetic magic, procedures involving astral magic, a catalogue of spirits, lengthy ceremonies for consecrating a book of magic, and other materials. With more detail on particular experiments than the famous thirteenth-century Picatrix and more variety than the Thesaurus Necromantiae ascribed to Roger Bacon, the manual is one of the most interesting and important manuscripts of medieval magic that has yet come to light.

1. Introduction: Magical Books and Magical Rites -- 2. Munich Handbook of Necromancy: Clm 849 -- 3. Banquets, Horses and Castles: Illusionist Experiments -- 4. Love, Favour and Madness: Psychological Experiments -- 5. Learning Hidden and Future Things: Divinatory Experiments -- 6. Formulas for Commanding Spirits: Conjurations and Exorcisms -- 7. Demons and Daimons: The Spirits Conjured -- 8. Magic of Circles and Spheres -- 9. Conclusion -- Edition of the Necromancer's Handbook in Clm 849, Fols 3r-108v.

Text is in English and Latin.