The Transformations of Magic: Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance

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THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF MAGIC THE MAGIC IN HISTORY SERIES FORBIDDEN RITES A Necromancer’s Manual of the Fifteenth Century Richard Kieckhefer CONJURING SPIRITS Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic Edited by Claire Fanger RITUAL MAGIC Elizabeth M. Butler THE FORTUNES OF FAUST Elizabeth M. Butler THE BATHHOUSE AT MIDNIGHT An Historical Survey of Magic and Divination in Russia W. F. Ryan SPIRITUAL AND DEMONIC MAGIC From Ficino to Campanella D. P. Walker ICONS OF POWER Ritual Practices in Late Antiquity Naomi Janowitz BATTLING DEMONS Witchcraft, Heresy, and Reform in the Late Middle Ages Michael D. Bailey PRAYER, MAGIC, AND THE STARS IN THE LATE ANCIENT AND ANTIQUE WORLD Edited by Scott Noegel, Joel Walker, and Brannon Wheeler BINDING WORDS Textual Amulets in the Middle Ages Don C. Skemer STRANGE REVELATIONS Magic, Poison, and Sacrilege in Louis XIV’s France Lynn Wood Mollenauer UNLOCKED BOOKS Manuscripts of Learned Magic in the Medieval Libraries of Central Europe Benedek Láng ALCHEMICAL BELIEF Occultism in the Religious Culture of Early Modern England Bruce Janacek The Magic in History series explores the role magic and the occult have played in European culture, religion, science, and politics. Titles in the series bring the resources of cultural, literary, and social history to bear on the history of the magic arts, and contribute to an understanding of why the theory and practice of magic have elicited fascination at every level of European society. Volumes will include both editions of important texts and significant new research in the field. M A G I C i n H I S T O R Y THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA F RANK KL AA SSEN THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF MAGIC ILLICIT LEARNED MAGIC in the LATER MIDDLE AGES and RENAISSANCE Sample.indd 3 7/20/12 5:54 PM Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Klaassen, Frank F. The transformations of magic : illicit learned magic in the later Middle Ages and Renaissance / Frank Klaassen. p. cm. — (The magic in history series) Summary: “Explores two principal genres of illicit learned magic in late Medieval manuscripts: image magic, which could be interpreted and justified in scholastic terms, and ritual magic, which could not”—Provided by publisher. Magic and natural philosophy—Scholastic image magic before 1500—Some apparent exceptions: image magic or necromancy? The ars notoria and the sworn book of Honorius—The magic of demons and angels—Sixteenth-century collections of magic texts—Medieval ritual magic and Renaissance magic. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-271-05626-5 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Magic—Manuscripts—History. 2. Manuscripts, Medieval. 3. Manuscripts, Renaissance. 4. Magic—Religious aspects—Christianity. 5. Magic—England—History. I. Title. BF1593.K56 2012 133.4’309—dc23 2012028139 Copyright © 2013 The Pennsylvania State University All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Published by The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, PA 16802-1003 The Pennsylvania State University Press is a member of the Association of American University Presses. It is the policy of The Pennsylvania State University Press to use acid-free paper. Publications on uncoated stock satisfy the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Material, ANSI Z39.48–1992. This book is printed on Nature’s Natural, which contains 30% post-consumer waste. For my parents Ruth and Walter Klaassen ...