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Rewriting Magic - An Exegesis of the Visionary Autobiography of a Fourteenth-Century French Monk (Paperback)
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Rewriting Magic - An Exegesis of the Visionary Autobiography of a Fourteenth-Century French Monk (Paperback)
Series: Magic in History
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In Rewriting Magic, Claire Fanger explores a fourteenth-century
text called The Flowers of Heavenly Teaching. Written by a
Benedictine monk named John of Morigny, the work all but
disappeared from the historical record, and it is only now coming
to light again in multiple versions and copies. While John's book
largely comprises an extended set of prayers for gaining knowledge,
The Flowers of Heavenly Teaching is unusual among prayer books of
its time because it includes a visionary autobiography with
intimate information about the book's inspiration and composition.
Through the window of this record, we witness how John reconstructs
and reconsecrates a condemned liturgy for knowledge acquisition:
the ars notoria of Solomon. John's work was the subject of intense
criticism and public scandal, and his book was burned as heretical
in 1323. The trauma of these experiences left its imprint on the
book, but in unexpected and sometimes baffling ways. Fanger decodes
this imprint even as she relays the narrative of how she learned to
understand it. In engaging prose, she explores the twin processes
of knowledge acquisition in John's visionary autobiography and her
own work of discovery as she reconstructed the background to his
extraordinary book. Fanger's approach to her subject exemplifies
innovative historical inquiry, research, and methodology. Part
theology, part historical anthropology, part biblio-memoir,
Rewriting Magic relates a story that will have deep implications
for the study of medieval life, monasticism, prayer, magic, and
religion.
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