Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer’s Manual of the Fifteenth Century (Magic in History) - Tapa blanda

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Kieckhefer, Richard

 
9780271017518: Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer’s Manual of the Fifteenth Century (Magic in History)
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ISBN 10: 0271017511 ISBN 13: 9780271017518
Editorial: Penn State University Press, 1998

Sinopsis

Preserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich is a manuscript that few scholars have noticed and that no one in modern times has treated with the seriousness it deserves. Forbidden Rites consists of an edition of this medieval Latin text with a full commentary, including detailed analysis of the text and its contents, discussion of the historical context, translation of representative sections of the text, and comparison with other necromantic texts of the late Middle Ages. The result is the most vivid and readable introduction to medieval magic now available.

Like many medieval texts for the use of magicians, this handbook is a miscellany rather than a systematic treatise. It is exceptional, however, in the scope and variety of its contents—prayers and conjurations, rituals of sympathetic magic, procedures involving astral magic, a catalogue of spirits, lengthy ceremonies for consecrating a book of magic, and other materials.

With more detail on particular experiments than the famous thirteenth-century Picatrix and more variety than the Thesaurus Necromantiae ascribed to Roger Bacon, the manual is one of the most interesting and important manuscripts of medieval magic that has yet come to light.

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Richard Kieckhefer is Professor of Religion and History at Northwestern University and an acknowledged expert on medieval magic and witchcraft. His publications include European Witch Trials: Their Foundations in Popular and Learned Culture, 1300–1500 (1976), Repression of Heresy in Medieval Germany (1979), Unquiet Souls: Fourteenth-Century Saints and Their Religious Milieu (1984), and Magic in the Middle Ages (1990).

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Editorial
Penn State University Press
Año de publicación
1998
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ISBN 10 
0271017511
ISBN 13 
9780271017518
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Número de páginas
394
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9780271017501: Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer’s Manual of the Fifteenth Century (Magic in History)

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ISBN 10:  0271017503 ISBN 13:  9780271017501
Editorial: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998
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