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Forbidden rites : a necromancer's manual of the fifteenth century / Richard Kieckhefer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kieckhefer, Richard, author.
- Series:
- Magic in history.
- Magic in history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Manuscript--Clm 849.
- Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.
- Magic--History.
- Magic.
- Demonology--History.
- Demonology.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press, [1998]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- "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." "Like many medieval texts for the use of magicians, it 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."--BOOK JACKET
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Magical Books and Magical Rites
- 2. Munich Handbook of Necromancy: Clm 849
- 3. Banquets, Horses and Castles: Illusionist Experiments
- 4. Love, Favour and Madness: Psychological Experiments
- 5. Learning Hidden and Future Things: Divinatory Experiments
- 6. Formulas for Commanding Spirits: Conjurations and Exorcisms
- 7. Demons and Daimons: The Spirits Conjured
- 8. Magic of Circles and Spheres
- 9. Conclusion
- Edition of the Necromancer's Handbook in Clm 849, Fols 3r-108v
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [378]-379) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780271065441
- 0271065443
- 9780271041728
- 0271041722
- OCLC:
- 1195471271
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