Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic

by Claire Fanger (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780271025179
Publisher:	Penn State University Press
Publication date:	09/15/1998
Series:	Magic in History
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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).

Editorial Reviews

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

From the Publisher

Although when most people think of magic they think of demonic magic or necromancy, the nine chapters in this volume mainly examine texts of angelic magic, along with their connections to Christian mysticism and other traditions. Widely practiced in medieval Europe, ritual magic's intellectual legacy remains in such texts as the , , and the . Topics discussed include: the Jewish influence on Christian magic, an art historian's perspective on the images of ritual practice, the relationship of astrology and magic, and comparative examinations of different texts. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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