This volume presents a critical edition of Laurens Pignon's treatise "Contre les devineurs" (1411) and examines its literary and historical context of courtly m

The magicians and astrologers who frequented the courts of Burgundy and France during the reign of Charles VI to render their dubious services to king and noble

A revised and expanded edition of this fascinating interdisciplinary study of magic in the Middle Ages.

Superstitions are commonplace in the modern world. Mostly, however, they evoke innocuous images of people reading their horoscopes or avoiding black cats. Certa

Magic is ubiquitous across the world and throughout history. Yet if witchcraft is acknowledged as a persistent presence in the medieval and early modern eras, p