Claire Fanger

Gebundenes Buch

Rewriting Magic

An Exegesis of the Visionary Autobiography of a Fourteenth-Century French Monk

Beschreibung

Examines the text and background of The Flowers of Heavenly Teaching, an autobiography by the fourteenth-century Benedictine monk John of Morigny. Explores how the author negotiated the categories of magic and heresy in relation to Christianity.

Autor

Claire Fanger is Assistant Professor of Religion at Rice University. She is the editor of Invoking Angels: Theurgic Ideas and Practices, Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries (Penn State, 2012) and Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic (Penn State, 1998).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penn State University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 477g
• ISBN-13: 9780271066509
• ISBN-10: 0271066504
• Artikelnr.: 42274063