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Conjuring Spirits
Language: en
Pages: 308
Authors: Claire Fanger
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-04-08 - Publisher: Penn State University Press

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Conjuring Spirits contains both general surveys and analyses of magical texts and manuscripts by distinguished scholars in a variety of disciplines. Included ar
Invoking Angels
Language: en
Pages: 408
Authors: Claire Fanger
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-01 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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"A collection of essays examining medieval and early modern texts aimed at performing magic or receiving illumination via the mediation of angels. Includes disc
Unlocked Books
Language: en
Pages: 350
Authors: Benedek Láng
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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"Presents and analyzes texts of learned magic written in medieval Central Europe (Poland, Bohemia, and Hungary), and attempts to identify their authors, readers
Magic in the Middle Ages
Language: en
Pages: 244
Authors: Richard Kieckhefer
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-05 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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How was magic practised in medieval times? How did it relate to the diverse beliefs and practices that characterised this fascinating period? In Magic in the Mi
Making Magic in Elizabethan England
Language: en
Pages: 160
Authors: Frank Klaassen
Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-12-11 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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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 Bo