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The Routledge History of Medieval Magic brings together the work of
scholars from across Europe and North America to provide extensive
insights into recent developments in the study of medieval magic
between c.1100 and c.1500. This book covers a wide range of topics,
including the magical texts which circulated in medieval Europe,
the attitudes of intellectuals and churchmen to magic, the ways in
which magic intersected with other aspects of medieval culture, and
the early witch trials of the fifteenth century. In doing so, it
offers the reader a detailed look at the impact that magic had
within medieval society, such as its relationship to gender roles,
natural philosophy, and courtly culture. This is furthered by the
book's interdisciplinary approach, containing chapters dedicated to
archaeology, literature, music, and visual culture, as well as
texts and manuscripts. The Routledge History of Medieval Magic also
outlines how research on this subject could develop in the future,
highlighting under-explored subjects, unpublished sources, and new
approaches to the topic. It is the ideal book for both established
scholars and students of medieval magic.
The art of predicting earthly events from the movements of stars
and planets has always been a source of fascination. Medieval
astrologers, though sometimes feared to be magicians in league with
demons, were usually revered scholars whose ideas and practices
were widely respected. Politics, medicine, weather forecasting,
cosmology and alchemy were all influenced by astrological concepts.
Astrology in Medieval Manuscripts explores the dazzling complexity
of western medieval astrology and its place in society, as revealed
by a wealth of illustrated manuscripts from the British Library's
rich medieval collection.
The Routledge History of Medieval Magic brings together the work of
scholars from across Europe and North America to provide extensive
insights into recent developments in the study of medieval magic
between c.1100 and c.1500. This book covers a wide range of topics,
including the magical texts which circulated in medieval Europe,
the attitudes of intellectuals and churchmen to magic, the ways in
which magic intersected with other aspects of medieval culture, and
the early witch trials of the fifteenth century. In doing so, it
offers the reader a detailed look at the impact that magic had
within medieval society, such as its relationship to gender roles,
natural philosophy, and courtly culture. This is furthered by the
book's interdisciplinary approach, containing chapters dedicated to
archaeology, literature, music, and visual culture, as well as
texts and manuscripts. The Routledge History of Medieval Magic also
outlines how research on this subject could develop in the future,
highlighting under-explored subjects, unpublished sources, and new
approaches to the topic. It is the ideal book for both established
scholars and students of medieval magic.
Do you believe in magic? Even if you don't, you probably 'think
magically' sometimes. We touch wood to stop bad things happening,
or take a lucky object to a job interview or exam in an irrational
attempt to influence the outcome. Spellbound: Magic, Ritual &
Witchcraft was the first exhibition to examine how magical thinking
has been practised over the centuries. With exquisitely engraved
rings to bind a lover, enchanted animal hearts pierced with nails,
mummified cats concealed in walls and many other intriguing
objects, the exhibition catalogue shows that the use of magic is
driven by our strongest emotions: the need to be loved, our fear of
evil and the desire to protect our homes. Authors explore the
practice of magic in the medieval universe, the early modern
community and the modern home. While belief in magic and rituals
can be comforting, it also led to the persecution of women as
witches. This book examines both the idea of the witch and the
reality of how women were accused of witchcraft. Even today, our
tendency to think magically has not changed as much as we might
think. Some of the chapters discuss contemporary ideas about
magical thinking and the artworks produced especially for the
exhibition to make connections between the ideas and experience of
magic in the past and in the present. Contents: Introduction -
Sophie Page and Marina Wallace; Love in a Time of Demons: Magic and
the Medieval Cosmos - Sophie Page; Musica Universalis - Harmonia
Mundi and Hayden - Chisholm's Medieval Jukebox - Marina Wallace;
Concealed and Revealed: Magic and Mystery in the Home - Owen Davies
and Ceri Houlbrook; The Fear and Loathing of Witches - Malcolm
Gaskill; Modern Rituals and Magical Thinking - Ceri Houlbrook;
Installations by Contemporary Artists - Marina Wallace
What makes up a public, what governs dominant discourses, and in
which ways can counterpublics be created through narrative? This
edited collection brings together essays on affect and narrative
theory with a focus on the topics of gender and sexuality. It
explores the power of narrative in literature, film, art,
performance, and mass media, the construction of subjectivities of
gender and sexuality, and the role of affect in times of crisis. By
combining theoretical, literary, and analytical texts, the
contributors offer methodological impulses and reflect on the
possibilities and limitations of affect theory in cultural studies.
During the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries a
group of monks with occult interests donated what became a
remarkable collection of more than thirty magic texts to the
library of the Benedictine abbey of St. Augustine's in Canterbury.
The monks collected texts that provided positive justifications for
the practice of magic and books in which works of magic were copied
side by side with works of more licit genres. In Magic in the
Cloister, Sophie Page uses this collection to explore the gradual
shift toward more positive attitudes to magical texts and ideas in
medieval Europe. She examines what attracted monks to magic texts,
in spite of the dangers involved in studying condemned works, and
how they combined magic with their intellectual interests and
monastic life. By showing how it was possible for religious
insiders to integrate magical studies with their orthodox
worldview, Magic in the Cloister contributes to a broader
understanding of the role of magical texts and ideas and their
acceptance in the late Middle Ages.
The unorthodox imagination in late medieval Britain explores how
medieval people responded to images, stories, beliefs and practices
which were at odds with the normative world view, from the
heretical and subversive to the marvellous and exotic. The Neale
lecture by Jean-Claude Schmitt examines why some unorthodox images
were viewed as provocative and threatening and explores how
successfully ecclesiastical authorities contained their impact. The
power of unorthodoxy to provoke wonder, skepticism or disapproval
provides an opportunity to view medieval culture from fresh
perspectives. The essays in this volume show that unorthodoxy was
embedded in mainstream medieval culture, from stories of fairies
and witches which promoted orthodox moral values to the social
conformity of practitioners of ritual magic. This book provides a
guide to understanding medieval unorthodoxy and the roles played by
experience and imagination in medieval encounters with the
unorthodox. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in
the exotic, provocative and deviant in medieval culture.
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