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Darrera modificació: 2010-11-09
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Fanger, Claire (ed.), Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic, University Park, Pa - Stroud, Pennsylvania State University Press - Sutton (Magic in history, 2), 1998, xviii + 284 pp.
- Resum
- Although when most people think of magic they think of demonic magic or necromancy, the nine chapters in this volume mainly examine texts of angelic magic, along with their connections to Christian mysticism and other traditions. Widely practiced in medieval Europe, ritual magic's intellectual legacy remains in such texts as the Ars Notoria, The Book of Angels, and the Secrets of the Philosophers. Topics discussed include: the Jewish influence on Christian magic, an art historian's perspective on the images of ritual practice, the relationship of astrology and magic, and comparative examinations of different texts
Contains general surveys and specific analyses of magical texts and manuscripts by scholars in a variety of disciplines. Topics covered include the Sworn Book of Honorius, images in Ars Notoria manuscripts, the Secretum Philosophorum, the Liber Visionum and Lullian divination. The work also contains Juris Lidaka's edition of the Liber de Angelis and an overview of late medieval magical texts, both "angelic" and "demonic", and offers insights into the place of magic in the medieval age.
Contents:
* Introduction. Medieval ritual magic: what it is and why we need to know more about it
-- Part I. Contexts, genres, images
* English manuscripts of magic, 1300-1500: a preliminary survey / Frank Klaassen
* The Book of Angels, Rings, Characters and Images of the Planets attributed to Osbern Bokenham / Juris Lidaka
* Safe magic and invisible writing in the Secretum Philosophorum / John B. Friedman
* A fragmentary German divination device: medieval analogues and pseudo-Lullian tradition / Elizabeth I. Wade
* Visual art in two manuscripts of the Ars Notoria / Michael Camille
-- Part II. Angelic knowledge: the Sworn Book and the Book of Visions
* A 13th-century ritual to attain the beatific vision from the Sworn Book of Honorius of Thebes / Robert Mathiesen
* John the Monk's Book of Visions of the Blessed and Undefiled Virgin Mary, Mother of God: two versions of a newly discovered ritual magic text / Nicholas Watson
* Plundering the Egyptian treasure: John the Monk's Book of Visions and its relation to the Ars Notoria of Solomon / Claire Fanger
* The devil's contemplatives: the Liber Iuratus, the Liber Visionum and the Christian appropriation of Jewish occultism / Richard Kieckhefer
- Matèries
- Màgia
Pseudo-Ramon Llull
- Notes
- Fitxa de l'editor: http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/0-271-01862-3.html
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