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Invoking Angels

Theurgic Ideas and Practices, Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries
  • ISBN-13: 9780271051420
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Edited by Claire Fanger
  • Price: AUD $204.00
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  • Local release date: 15/04/2012
  • Format: Hardback 408 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Ancient history: to c 500 CE [HBLA]
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A collection of essays examining medieval and early modern texts aimed at performing magic or receiving illumination via the mediation of angels. Includes discussion of Jewish, Christian and Muslim texts.


Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Theurgy, Magic, and Mysticism

Claire Fanger

I. Texts of the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries

1 Magic, Theurgy, and Spirituality in the Medieval Ritual of the Ars notoria

Julien Véronèse (English translation by Claire Fanger)

2 Uplifting Souls: The Liber de essentia spirituum and the Liber Razielis

Sophie Page

3 The Liber iuratus Honorii and the Christian Reception of Angel Magic

Katelyn Mesler

4 Honorius and the Sigil of God: The Liber iuratus in Berengario Ganell’s Summa sacre magice

Jan R. Veenstra

5 Covenant and the Divine Name: Revisiting the Liber iuratus and John of Morigny’s Liber florum

Claire Fanger

II. Late Fourteenth- Through Sixteenth-Century Texts

6 Antonio da Montolmo’s De occultis et manifestis or Liber intelligentiarum: An Annotated Critical Edition with English Translation and Introduction

Nicolas Weill-Parot (in collaboration with Julien Véronèse)

7 Between the March of Ancona and Florence: Jewish Magic and a Christian Text

Harvey J. Hames

8 Language, Secrecy, and the Mysteries of Law: Theurgy and the Christian Kabbalah of Johannes Reuchlin

Elliot R. Wolfson

9 Ritual Invocation and Early Modern Science: The Skrying Experiments of Humphrey Gilbert

Frank Klaassen

Selected Bibliography

Index


“Just as Conjuring Spirits did for medieval ritual magic, Invoking Angels has set a new path for the field of medieval theurgy.”

—Laura Mitchell, Preternature

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