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This volume presents editions of two fascinating anonymous and untitled manuscripts of magic produced in Elizabethan England: the Antiphoner Notebook and the Boxgrove Manual. Frank Klaassen uses these texts, which he argues are representative of the overwhelming majority of magical practitioners, to... Read More about Making Magic in Elizabethan England: Two Early Modern Vernacular Books of Magic (Magic in History)

Explores two principal genres of illicit learned magic in late medieval manuscripts: image magic, which could be interpreted and justified in scholastic terms, and ritual magic, which could not.... Read More about Magic in History: Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance

Most of the women and men who practiced magic in Tudor England were not hanged or burned as witches, despite being active members of their communities. These everyday magicians responded to common human problems such as the vagaries of money, love, property, and influence, and they were essential to... Read More about Everyday Magicians: Legal Records and Magic Manuscripts from Tudor England (Magic in History Sourcebooks)

In 1510, nine men were tried in the Archbishop's Court in York for attempting to find and extract a treasure on the moor near Mixindale through necromantic magic. Two decades later, William Neville and his magician were arrested by Thomas Cromwell for having engaged in a treasonous combination of ma... Read More about The Magic of Rogues: Necromancers in Early Tudor England (Magic in History Sourcebooks #4)

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 for... Read More about The Transformations of Magic: Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance (Magic in History)

This volume presents editions of two fascinating anonymous and untitled manuscripts of magic produced in Elizabethan England: the Antiphoner Notebook and the Boxgrove Manual. Frank Klaassen uses these texts, which he argues are representative of the overwhelming majority of magical practitioners, to... Read More about Making Magic in Elizabethan England: Two Early Modern Vernacular Books of Magic (Magic in History)