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Magic in History. The Transformations of Magic : Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance / Frank Klaassen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Magic in HistoryPublisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780271061757
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 133.4/309 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I The apothecary’s dilemma -- 1 Magic and natural philosophy -- 2 Scholastic image magic before 1500 -- 3 Some apparent exceptions: image magic or necromancy? -- Part II Brother John’s dilemma -- Introduction -- 4 The ars notoria and the sworn book of honorius -- 5 The magic of demons and angels -- Part III Magic after 1580 -- 6 Sixteenth-century collections of magic texts -- 7 Medieval Ritual Magic and Renaissance Magic -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: In this original, provocative, well-reasoned, and thoroughly documented book, Frank Klaassen proposes that two principal genres of illicit learned magic occur in late medieval manuscripts: image magic, which could be interpreted and justified in scholastic terms, and ritual magic (in its extreme form, overt necromancy), which could not. Image magic tended to be recopied faithfully; ritual magic tended to be adapted and reworked. These two forms of magic did not usually become intermingled in the manuscripts, but were presented separately. While image magic was often copied in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, The Transformations of Magic demonstrates that interest in it as an independent genre declined precipitously around 1500. Instead, what persisted was the other, more problematic form of magic: ritual magic. Klaassen shows that texts of medieval ritual magic were cherished in the sixteenth century, and writers of new magical treatises, such as Agrippa von Nettesheim and John Dee, were far more deeply indebted to medieval tradition—and specifically to the medieval tradition of ritual magic—than previous scholars have thought them to be.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I The apothecary’s dilemma -- 1 Magic and natural philosophy -- 2 Scholastic image magic before 1500 -- 3 Some apparent exceptions: image magic or necromancy? -- Part II Brother John’s dilemma -- Introduction -- 4 The ars notoria and the sworn book of honorius -- 5 The magic of demons and angels -- Part III Magic after 1580 -- 6 Sixteenth-century collections of magic texts -- 7 Medieval Ritual Magic and Renaissance Magic -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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In this original, provocative, well-reasoned, and thoroughly documented book, Frank Klaassen proposes that two principal genres of illicit learned magic occur in late medieval manuscripts: image magic, which could be interpreted and justified in scholastic terms, and ritual magic (in its extreme form, overt necromancy), which could not. Image magic tended to be recopied faithfully; ritual magic tended to be adapted and reworked. These two forms of magic did not usually become intermingled in the manuscripts, but were presented separately. While image magic was often copied in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, The Transformations of Magic demonstrates that interest in it as an independent genre declined precipitously around 1500. Instead, what persisted was the other, more problematic form of magic: ritual magic. Klaassen shows that texts of medieval ritual magic were cherished in the sixteenth century, and writers of new magical treatises, such as Agrippa von Nettesheim and John Dee, were far more deeply indebted to medieval tradition—and specifically to the medieval tradition of ritual magic—than previous scholars have thought them to be.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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