Magic in the Cloister: Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe

by Sophie Page

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271060344
• ISBN13: 9780271060347
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"