The transformations of magic
Subtitle: illicit learned magic in the later Middle Ages and Renaissance
By: Frank Klaassen
Series: The magic in history series
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780271056265
Subjects: Renaissance Manuscripts; Magic; Medieval Manuscripts; History; Manuscripts; Christianity
Description: "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.
Notes: 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.