Two opposing views of the future in the Middle Ages dominate recent historical scholarship. According to one opinion, medieval societies were expecting the near

A great number of historical examples show how desperate people sought to obtain a glimpse of the future or explain certain incidents retrospectively through si

From a late 15th-century Catalan incunable and drawing on a rich tradition of astrological magic, geomancy, Pythagorean numerology and Hebrew gematria, this pra

Susanna Fein’s long and distinguished scholarly career has helped to redefine how we understand the role of scribes and manuscripts from late medieval England

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