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Making Magic in Elizabethan England - Two Early Modern Vernacular Books of Magic (Hardcover)
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Making Magic in Elizabethan England - Two Early Modern Vernacular Books of Magic (Hardcover)
Series: Magic in History
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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.
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