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The Transformations of Magic: Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance (Magic in History) by Frank Klaassen
English | December 21, 2012 | ISBN: 0271056266, 0271056274 | True EPUB/PDF | 280 pages | 1.8/10.6 MB
In this original, provocative, well-reasoned, and thoroughly documented book, Frank Klaassen proposes that two principal genres of illicit learned magic occur in late medieval manuscripts: image magic, which could be interpreted and justified in scholastic terms, and ritual magic (in its extreme form, overt necromancy), which could not. Image magic tended to be recopied faithfully; ritual magic tended to be adapted and reworked. These two forms of magic did not usually become intermingled in the manuscripts, but were presented separately.