Making Magic in Elizabethan England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making Magic in Elizabethan England write by Frank Klaassen. This book was released on 2019-12-11. Making Magic in Elizabethan England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume presents editions of two fascinating anonymous and untitled manuscripts of magic produced in Elizabethan England: the Antiphoner Notebook and the Boxgrove Manual. Frank Klaassen uses these texts, which he argues are representative of the overwhelming majority of magical practitioners, to explain how magic changed during this period and why these developments were crucial to the formation of modern magic. The Boxgrove Manual is a work of learned ritual magic that synthesizes material from Henry Cornelius Agrippa, the Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy, Heptameron, and various medieval conjuring works. The Antiphoner Notebook concerns the common magic of treasure hunting, healing, and protection, blending medieval conjuring and charm literature with materials drawn from Reginald Scot’s famous anti-magic work, Discoverie of Witchcraft. Klaassen painstakingly traces how the scribes who created these two manuscripts adapted and transformed their original sources. In so doing, he demonstrates the varied and subtle ways in which the Renaissance, the Reformation, new currents in science, the birth of printing, and vernacularization changed the practice of magic. Illuminating the processes by which two sixteenth-century English scribes went about making a book of magic, this volume provides insight into the wider intellectual culture surrounding the practice of magic in the early modern period.
The Transformations of Magic
The Transformations of Magic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Transformations of Magic write by Frank Klaassen. This book was released on 2013. The Transformations of Magic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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.
The Magic of Rogues
The Magic of Rogues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Magic of Rogues write by Frank Klaassen. This book was released on 2021-02-19. The Magic of Rogues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1510, nine men were tried in the Archbishop’s Court in York for attempting to find and extract a treasure on the moor near Mixindale through necromantic magic. Two decades later, William Neville and his magician were arrested by Thomas Cromwell for having engaged in a treasonous combination of magic practices and prophecy surrounding the death of William’s older brother, Lord Latimer, and the king. In The Magic of Rogues, Frank Klaassen and Sharon Hubbs Wright present the legal documents about and open a window onto these fascinating investigations of magic practitioners in early Tudor England. Set side by side with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century texts that describe the sorts of magic those practitioners performed, these documents are translated, contextualized, and presented in language accessible to nonspecialist readers. Their analysis reveals how magicians and cunning folk operated in extended networks in which they exchanged knowledge, manuscripts, equipment, and even clients; foregrounds magicians’ encounters with authority in ways that separate them from traditional narratives about witchcraft and witch trials; and suggests that the regulation and punishment of magic in the Tudor period were comparatively and perhaps surprisingly gentle. Incorporating the study of both intellectual and legal sources, The Magic of Rogues presents a well-rounded picture of illicit learned magic in early Tudor England. Engaging and accessible, this book will appeal to anyone seeking to understand the intersection of medieval legal history, religion, magic, esotericism, and Tudor history.
Virtuous Necessity
Virtuous Necessity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Virtuous Necessity write by Jessica Murphy. This book was released on 2015-08-25. Virtuous Necessity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A new way of looking at behavioral expectations for women in early modern England
The Renaissance Reform of the Book and Britain
The Renaissance Reform of the Book and Britain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Renaissance Reform of the Book and Britain write by David Rundle. This book was released on 2021-03-18. The Renaissance Reform of the Book and Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What has fifteenth-century England to do with the Renaissance? By challenging accepted notions of 'medieval' and 'early modern' David Rundle proposes a new understanding of English engagement with the Renaissance. He does so by focussing on one central element of the humanist agenda - the reform of the script and of the book more generally - to demonstrate a tradition of engagement from the 1430s into the early sixteenth century. Introducing a cast-list of scribes and collectors who are not only English and Italian but also Scottish, Dutch and German, this study sheds light on the cosmopolitanism central to the success of the humanist agenda. Questioning accepted narratives of the slow spread of the Renaissance from Italy to other parts of Europe, Rundle suggests new possibilities for the fields of manuscript studies and the study of Renaissance humanism.
