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Author:   Sophie Page ,  Catherine Rider
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   1.148kg
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9781472447302

ISBN 10:   1472447301
Pages:   550
Publication Date:   24 January 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Sophie Page and Catherine Rider Part I: Conceptualizing magic 1 Rethinking how to define magic Richard Kieckhefer 2 For magic: Against method Claire Fanger 3 A discourse historical approach towards medieval learned magic Bernd-Christian Otto 4 The concept of magic David. L. d’Avray 5 Responses Richard Kieckhefer, David. L. d’Avray, Bernd-Christian Ott o, and Claire Fanger Part I I: Languages and dissemination 6 Arabic magic: The impetus for translating texts and their reception Charles Burnett 7 The Latin encounter with Hebrew magic: Problems and approaches Katelyn Mesler 8 Magic in Romance languages Sebastia Giralt 9 Central and Eastern Europe Benedek Lang 10 Magic in Celtic lands Mark Williams 11 Scandinavia Stephen A. Mitchell Part I I I: Key genres and figures 12 From Hermetic magic to the magic of marvels Antonella Sannino 13 The notion of properties: Tensions between Scientia and Ars in medieval natural philosophy and magic Isabelle Draelants 14 Solomonic magic Julien Veronese 15 Necromancy Frank Klaassen 16 John of Morigny Claire Fanger and Nicholas Watson 17 Cecco d’Ascoli and Antonio da Montolmo: The building of a “nigromantical” cosmology and the birth of the author-magician Nicolas Weill-Parot 18 Beringarius Ganellus and the Summa sacre magice: Magic as the promotion of God’s Kingship Damaris Aschera Gehr 19 Jerome Torrella and “Astrological Images” Nicolas Weill-Parot 20 Peter of Zealand Jean-Marc Mandosio Part IV: Themes (magic and…) 21 Magic and natural philosophy St even P. Marrone 22 Medicine and magic Peter Murray Jones and Lea T. Olsan 23 Illusion Robert Goulding 24 Magic at court Jean-Patrice Boudet 25 Magic and gender Catherine Rider 26 Magic in literature: Romance transformations Corinne Saunders 27 Music John Haines 28 Magic and archaeology: Ritual residues and “odd” deposits Roberta Gilchrist 29 The visual culture of magic in the Middle Ages Alejandro Garcia Aviles 30 Medieval magical figures: Between image and text Sophie Page Part V: Anti-magical discourse in the later Middle Ages 31 Scholasticism and high medieval opposition to magic David J. Collins 32 Pastoral literature and preaching Kathleen Kamerick 33 Superstition and sorcery Michael D. Bailey 34 Witchcraft Mart ine Ostorero 35 Epilogue: Cosmology and magic – The angel of Mars in the Libro de astromagia Alejandro Garcia Aviles Further reading Index

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The breadth of this volume - geographical, linguistic, chronological and disciplinary - is a huge feat, and The Routledge History of Medieval Magic is an important addition to existing scholarship. The sections entitled 'Future directions' are perhaps the book's most important component, providing a way forward for future research in a field that offers so much, standing as it does, in the words of Kieckhefer, at a 'kind of crossroads where different pathways in medieval culture converge'. Joanne Edge Cerae: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies

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Sophie Page is an Associate Professor in Late Medieval History at UCL. She is working on medieval magic and astrology, especially in relation to religion, natural philosophy, medicine, and cosmology. Catherine Rider is an Associate Professor in Medieval History at the University of Exeter. Her research focuses on the history of magic in the later Middle Ages, looking especially at the relationship between magic and the medieval church.

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