Solomon's Secret Arts - 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 Solomon's Secret Arts write by Paul Kleber Monod. This book was released on 2013-05-21. Solomon's Secret Arts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. DIVDIVThis illuminating book reveals the surprising extent to which great and lesser knownthinkers of the Age of Enlightenment embraced the spiritual, the magical, and the occult./div/div
Magic in Merlin's Realm
Magic in Merlin's Realm - 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 Magic in Merlin's Realm write by Francis Young. This book was released on 2022-03-03. Magic in Merlin's Realm available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Belief in magic was, until relatively recent times, widespread in Britain; yet the impact of such belief on determinative political events has frequently been overlooked. In his wide-ranging new book, Francis Young explores the role of occult traditions in the history of the island of Great Britain: Merlin's realm. He argues that while the great magus and artificer invented by Geoffrey of Monmouth was a powerful model for a succession of actual royal magical advisers (including Roger Bacon and John Dee), monarchs nevertheless often lived in fear of hostile sorcery while at other times they even attempted magic themselves. Successive governments were simultaneously fascinated by astrology and alchemy, yet also deeply wary of the possibility of treasonous spellcraft. Whether deployed in warfare, rebellion or propaganda, occult traditions were of central importance to British history and, as the author reveals, these dark arts of magic and politics remain entangled to this day.
Hope and Fear
Hope and Fear - 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 Hope and Fear write by Ronald H. Fritze. This book was released on 2022-04-18. Hope and Fear available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A myth-busting journey through the twilight world of fringe ideas and alternative facts. Is a secret and corrupt Illuminati conspiring to control world affairs and bring about a New World Order? Was Donald Trump a victim of massive voter fraud? Is Elizabeth II a shapeshifting reptilian alien? Who is doing all this plotting? In Hope and Fear, Ronald H. Fritze explores the fringe ideas and conspiracy theories people have turned to in order to make sense of the world around them, from myths about the Knights Templar and the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, to Nazis and the occult, the Protocols of Zion and UFOs. As Fritze reveals, when conspiracy theories, myths, and pseudo-history dominate a society’s thinking, facts, reality, and truth fall by the wayside.
Romanticism and Popular Magic
Romanticism and Popular 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 Romanticism and Popular Magic write by Stephanie Elizabeth Churms. This book was released on 2019-01-16. Romanticism and Popular Magic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores how Romanticism was shaped by practices of popular magic. It seeks to identify the place of occult activity and culture – in the form of curses, spells, future-telling, charms and protective talismans – in everyday life, together with the ways in which such practice figures, and is refigured, in literary and political discourse at a time of revolutionary upheaval. What emerges is a new perspective on literature’s material contexts in the 1790s – from the rhetorical, linguistic and visual jugglery of the revolution controversy, to John Thelwall’s occult turn during a period of autobiographical self-reinvention at the end of the decade. From Wordsworth’s deployment of popular magic as a socially and politically emancipatory agent in Lyrical Ballads, to Coleridge’s anxious engagement with superstition as a despotic system of ‘mental enslavement’, and Robert Southey’s wrestling with an (increasingly alluring) conservatism he associated with a reliance on ultimately incarcerating systems of superstition.
Medicine, Magic and Art in Early Modern Norway
Medicine, Magic and Art in Early Modern Norway - 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 Medicine, Magic and Art in Early Modern Norway write by Ane Ohrvik. This book was released on 2018-04-02. Medicine, Magic and Art in Early Modern Norway available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book addresses magical ideas and practices in early modern Norway. It examines a large corpus of Norwegian manuscripts from 1650-1850 commonly called Black Books which contained a mixture of recipes on medicine, magic, and art. Ane Ohrvik assesses the Black Books from the vantage point of those who wrote the manuscripts and thus offers an original study of how early modern magical practitioners presented their ideas and saw their practices. The book show how the writers viewed magic and medicine both as practical and sacred art and as knowledge worth protecting through encoding the text. The study of the Black Books illuminates how ordinary people in Norway conceptualized magic as valuable and useful knowledge worth of collecting and saving despite the ongoing witchcraft prosecutions targeting the very same ideas and practices as the books promoted. Medicine, Magic and Art in Early Modern Norway is essential for those looking to advance their studies in magical beliefs and practices in early modern Europe as well as those interested in witchcraft studies, book history, and the history of knowledge.
