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[Enhanced Credo edition] |
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1 online resource (48 entries) : 38 images ; digital files. |
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still image rdacontent |
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electronic isbdmedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
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Routledge histories |
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Routledge histories.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. Rethinking how to define magic -- 2. For magic : against method -- 3. A discourse historical approach towards medieval learned magic -- 4. The concept of magic -- 5. Responses -- 6. Arabic magic : the impetus for translating texts and their reception -- 7. The Latin encounter with Hebrew magic : problems and approaches -- 8. Magic in Romance languages -- 9. Central and Eastern Europe -- 10. Magic in Celtic lands -- 11. Scandinavia -- 12. From Hermetic magic to the magic of marvels -- 13. The notion of properties : tensions between Scientia and Ars in medieval natural philosophy and magic -- 14. Solomonic magic -- 15. Necromancy -- 16. John of Morigny -- 17. Cecco d'Ascoli and Antonio da Montolmo : the building of a "nigromantical" cosmology and the birth of the author-magician -- 18. Beringarius Ganellus and the Summa sacre magice : magic as the promotion of God's Kingship -- 19. Jerome Torrella and "astrological images" -- 20. Peter of Zealand -- 21. Magic and natural philosophy -- 22. Medicine and magic -- 23. Illusion -- 24. Magic at court -- 25. Magic and gender -- 26. Magic in literature : Romance transformations -- 27. Music -- 28. Magic and archaeology : ritual residues and "odd" deposits -- 29. The visual culture of magic in the Middle ages -- 30. Medieval magical figures : between image and text -- 31. Scholasticism and high medieval opposition to magic -- 32. Pastoral literature and preaching -- 33. Superstition and sorcery -- 34. Witchcraft -- 35. Epilogue : cosmology and magic : the angel of Mars in the Libro de astromagia. |
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Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |
| Summary |
The Routledge History of Medieval Magic brings together the work of scholars from across Europe and North America to provide extensive insights into recent developments in the study of medieval magic between c.1100 and c.1500. |
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Also available in print. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Description based on title page of print version. |
| Subject |
Magic -- History -- To 1500.
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Europe -- Social life and customs -- To 1500.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Page, Sophie, 1972- editor.
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Rider, Catherine (Catherine Rosemary), editor.
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Credo Reference (Firm), distributor.
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| Added Title |
History of medieval magic |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 1472447301 9781472447302 (DLC) 2020693795 xvii, 560 pages : illustrations |
| ISBN |
9781787856400 electronic version |
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9781317042754 ebook |
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1317042751 ebook |
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1315613190 ebook |
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1472447301 hardback |
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9781315613192 ebook |
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9781472447302 hardback |
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9781317042761 electronic book |
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131704276X electronic book |
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9781317042747 Mobipocket |
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1317042743 Mobipocket |
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