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Author: Valerie Irene Jane Flint
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.709kg
ISBN: 9780691001104
ISBN 10: 0691001103
Pages: 472
Publication Date: 13 February 1994
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Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Professional & Vocational
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Language: English
Reviews
Flint combines a bold thesis and sophisticated historiography with impeccable scholarship. Her semantic disentangling of contemporary texts and their various terms is as sensitive as her contextual interpretation of them... Flint writes with verve and style. This is an extraordinarily good book. --Patrick Curry, History Today In this large, brave and erudite book, Valerie Flint sets out to rescue the preternatural aspects of medieval culture from the opprobrium with which Reformation polemicists attacked them, and to understand magic, both 'Christian magic' and non-Christian, on its own terms... This is a book which will inevitably arouse welcome and refreshing controversy. --Julia Smith, Early Medieval Europe Diligently researched and well-written survey of what antiquity and churchmen between the fifth and eleventh centuries had to say about magical beliefs and practices, and what the Church and State should do about them. --The Times Literary Supplement
Flint combines a bold thesis and sophisticated historiography with impeccable scholarship. Her semantic disentangling of contemporary texts and their various terms is as sensitive as her contextual interpretation of them... Flint writes with verve and style. This is an extraordinarily good book. -- Patrick Curry History Today In this large, brave and erudite book, Valerie Flint sets out to rescue the preternatural aspects of medieval culture from the opprobrium with which Reformation polemicists attacked them, and to understand magic, both 'Christian magic' and non-Christian, on its own terms... This is a book which will inevitably arouse welcome and refreshing controversy. -- Julia Smith Early Medieval Europe Diligently researched and well-written survey of what antiquity and churchmen between the fifth and eleventh centuries had to say about magical beliefs and practices, and what the Church and State should do about them. The Times Literary Supplement
Flint combines a bold thesis and sophisticated historiography with impeccable scholarship. Her semantic disentangling of contemporary texts and their various terms is as sensitive as her contextual interpretation of them... Flint writes with verve and style. This is an extraordinarily good book. -- Patrick Curry, History Today In this large, brave and erudite book, Valerie Flint sets out to rescue the preternatural aspects of medieval culture from the opprobrium with which Reformation polemicists attacked them, and to understand magic, both 'Christian magic' and non-Christian, on its own terms... This is a book which will inevitably arouse welcome and refreshing controversy. -- Julia Smith, Early Medieval Europe Diligently researched and well-written survey of what antiquity and churchmen between the fifth and eleventh centuries had to say about magical beliefs and practices, and what the Church and State should do about them. -- The Times Literary Supplement
Flint combines a bold thesis and sophisticated historiography with impeccable scholarship. Her semantic disentangling of contemporary texts and their various terms is as sensitive as her contextual interpretation of them... Flint writes with verve and style. This is an extraordinarily good book. --Patrick Curry, History Today In this large, brave and erudite book, Valerie Flint sets out to rescue the preternatural aspects of medieval culture from the opprobrium with which Reformation polemicists attacked them, and to understand magic, both 'Christian magic' and non-Christian, on its own terms... This is a book which will inevitably arouse welcome and refreshing controversy. --Julia Smith, Early Medieval Europe Diligently researched and well-written survey of what antiquity and churchmen between the fifth and eleventh centuries had to say about magical beliefs and practices, and what the Church and State should do about them. -- The Times Literary Supplement
Author Information
Valerie I. J. Flint is Professor of History at the University of Auckland. Among her books is The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus (Princeton).
