Richard Kieckhefer (Illinois Northwestern University)

Magic in the Middle Ages

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This revised and expanded edition surveys the growth and development of magic in medieval times. Examining its relationship with religion, science, philosophy, art, literature and politics, Richard Kieckhefer sheds light on the different types of magic that were used, the people who practiced it and the reasoning behind their beliefs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 3 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 492g
• ISBN-13: 9781108796897
• ISBN-10: 1108796893
• Artikelnr.: 61933433

Autorenporträt

Richard Kieckhefer has taught in Religious Studies and History and is now Emeritus Professor at Northwestern University, where his work focuses on the history of late medieval religious culture and the history of magic and witchcraft, with particular focus on the late Middle Ages. His published books include European Witch Trials: Their Foundations in Popular and Learned Culture, 1300-1500 (1976), Repression of Heresy in Medieval Germany (1979), Unquiet Souls: Fourteenth-Century Saints and their Religious Milieu (1984), Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century (1997), Theology in Stone: Church Architecture from Byzantium to Berkeley (2004) and Hazards of the Dark Arts: Advice for Medieval Princes on Witchcraft and Magic (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Magic as a crossroads
2. The classical inheritance
3. The twilight of paganism: Magic in Norse and Irish culture
4. The common tradition of medieval magic
5. The romance of magic in courtly culture
6. Arabic learning and the occult sciences
7. Invocation and conjuration of angels
8. Conjuration of demons
9. Prohibition, condemnation, and prosecution.