A general introduction to medieval magic, containing a little-known
handbook from the late Middle Ages.
Preserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich is a
manuscript that few scholars have noticed and that no one in modern
times has treated with the seriousness it deserves. Forbidden Rites
consists of an edition of this medieval Latin text with a full
commentary, including detailed analysis of the text and its
contents, discussion of the historical context, translation of
representative sections of the text, and comparison with other
necromantic texts of the late Middle Ages. The result is the most
vivid and readable introduction to medieval magic now
available.
Like many medieval texts for the use of magicians, this handbook
is a miscellany rather than a systematic treatise. It is
exceptional, however, in the scope and variety of its contents --
prayers and conjurations, rituals of sympathetic magic, procedures
involving astral magic, a catalogue of spirits, lengthy ceremonies
for consecrating a book of magic, and other materials.
With more detail on particular experiments than the famous
thirteenth-century Picatrix and more variety than the Thesaurus
Necromatiae ascribed to Roger Bacon, the manual is one of the most
interesting and important manuscripts of medieval magic that has
yet come to light.
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