Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time: The Occult in Pre-Modern Sciences, Medicine, Literature, Religion, and Astrology

"Table of Contents" -- "List of Illustrations" -- "Magic in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age – Literature, Science, Religion, Philosophy, Music, and Art. An Introduction" -- "Magical (and Maligned) Metalworkers: Understanding Representations of Early and...

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Main Author: Classen, Albrecht (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2017
In:Year: 2017
Series/Journal:Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture v.20
Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture Ser v.20
Further subjects:B Magicians
B Magic-History
B Electronic books
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Parallel Edition:Print version: Classen, Albrecht: Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time : The Occult in Pre-Modern Sciences, Medicine, Literature, Religion, and Astrology. - Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter,c2017. - 9783110556070
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Summary:"Table of Contents" -- "List of Illustrations" -- "Magic in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age – Literature, Science, Religion, Philosophy, Music, and Art. An Introduction" -- "Magical (and Maligned) Metalworkers: Understanding Representations of Early and High Medieval Blacksmiths" -- "Painted Eyes, Magical Sieves and Carved Runes: Charms for Catching and Punishing Thieves in the Medieval and Early Modern Germanic Tradition" -- "Constructing the Magical Biography of the Irish Druid Mog Ruith" -- "Zum Umgang mit Zauberern im Rahmen frühmittelalterlicher Missionsanstrengungen (Dealing with Magicians Within the Framework of Early Medieval Missionizing Efforts)" -- "Magic and Science: The Portail des libraires, Rouen" -- "The Magic of Love: Queen Isolde, the Magician Clinschor, and “Seeing” in Gottfried’s Tristan and Wolfram’s Parzival" -- "Magical Gifts in Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan und Isolde and the Rejection of Magic" -- "Was Eustace Diabolical? Magic and Devilry in Le roman de Wistasse le moine" -- "Merlin, or, a Prophet Turning Magician" -- "The Book of Zabulon – A Quest for Hidden Secrets: Intertextuality and Magical Genealogy in Middle High German Literature, with an Emphasis on Reinfried von Braunschweig" -- "Miracles and Magic: Necromantic Practices Found in Cantiga 125" -- "Magic at the Margins: The Mystification of Maugis d’Aigremont" -- "The Magician at Home with his Family: Comparative Historical Ethnographies of Two Pre- Modern Magicians from Autobiographical Sources: John of Morigny and the Tibetan Monk Milarepa" -- "Curious Clerks: Image Magic and Chaucerian Poetics" -- "Representing Magic and Science in The Franklin’s Tale and The Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale: Chaucer’s Exploration of Connected Topics" -- "Magic in Late Medieval German Literature: The Case of the Good Magician Malagis
"Motives, Means, and a Malevolent Mantel: The Case of Morgan le Fay’s Transgressions in Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur" -- "Witchcraft, Heinrich Kramer’s Nuremburg Handbook, and Ecclesiasticus: The Construction of the Fifteenth-Century Civic Sorceress" -- "Magic and Ritual in Late-Medieval and Early-Modern Popular Medicine" -- "Attempted Murder by Magic: The Sorcerer and His Apprentice in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron 1" -- "How Magical Was Renaissance Magic?" -- "Magic in Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen’s Saul and the Witch of Endor" -- "Heterochronic Representation of Magic in Czech Chapbooks" -- "Rethinking Max Weber’s Theory of Disenchantment" -- "Contributors
ISBN:311055772X