- Paperback: 284 pages
- Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press (Sep 1998)
- Language Latin
- ISBN-10: 0271018631
- ISBN-13: 978-0271018638
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.7 x 2.1 cm
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Conjuring Spirits contains both general surveys and analyses of magical texts and manuscripts by distinguished scholars in a variety of disciplines. Included are chapters by Richard Kieckhefer and Robert Mathiesen on the "Sworn Book of Honorius," Michael Camille on the Ars Notoria, John B. Friedman on the Secretum Philosophorum, Nicholas Watson on the McMaster text, and Elizabeth Wade on Lullian divination. The work also includes Juris Lidaka's edition of the Liber de Angelis, and an overview of late medieval English ritual manuscripts by Frank Klaassen. This book will be invaluable for scholars and other readers interested in ritual magic in the later middle ages.
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Interest in literate magic in the late medieval period whether practical, academic, or prurient took many forms. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Interest in literate magic in the late medieval period whether practical, academic, or prurient took many forms. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Good Overview of Real Magic Stuff
14 Jun 2001
With countless imaginative, nonsensical magical texts out there and new-age crap, where should one start to search for real serious stuff? This book is it. The research done is admirable and the stuff mentioned were really in use. Gives one a true view of what grimoires are and how they were used.
This is a very good book to start for anyone looking for real stuff.
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Start with This --- You Won't Be Led Astray
9 Dec 2001
With many books on summoning spirits available today, which you can trust to be "real stuff"? This one! This book is a scholarly look of the topic and careful examination of the stuff that are now in well-known museums such as the British Museum.
After reading this, I am more confident of telling which books out there are inaccurate or instances where stuff are just added to make those rubbish books sell better.
If you are interested in getting a glimpse of how summoning spirits was done in medieval times, this book is a must-read.
6 of 34 people found the following review helpful
Conjuring Spirits: texts and medieval ritual magic
14 May 2001
this book is very good for advanced spirit summoners. it has a lot of information in it. it could be very dangerous though to use the techniques if u r a beginner for the editor has left out some parts so the unintiated could not use the information that is herein this book. but if u r a competent summoner than this book is for u. it has everything u need to do besides of course the characters and names of the spirits u can summon, but it does hint at what and where u can find the names of what u summon.
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