Posts belonging to Category 'Magic'
July 31, 2010 | Posted by Mark
As part of my research into magic in the Middle Ages I have been reading Lives of the Necromancers by William Godwin (published in 1834). It is not the most thoroughly researched of academic texts on the subjects, but it is fine for getting an overview of legends related about a number of medieval thinkers [...]
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July 28, 2010 | Posted by Mark
If you are interested in the research of magic and witchcraft in the middle ages you may have come across the following seminal works: Henry Charles Lea‘s A History of the Inquisition (3 volumes): although this title covers all of the activities of the inquisition and therefore mainly the crime of heresy, there is also [...]
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June 9, 2010 | Posted by Mark
My story Bird Talk is about a young priest, Roger, living in a small medieval English town, who is trying to uncover what he believes are foul magical deeds. But instead he manages to implicate the women he loves in accusations of witchcraft and, with the help of the town drunk, must work out a [...]
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June 4, 2010 | Posted by Mark
If you’re interested in finding out more about demons and demonology then I am sure you have come across sources such as the Goetia and the Pseudomonarchia daemonum. Both sources have a fairly similar list of demons, which I believe were compiled in the later middle ages/early modern period, just as the interest in magic, [...]
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October 22, 2009 | Posted by Mark
I have added a page on the Ars Notoria, a medieval grimoire attributed to Solomon. Ars Notoria means the Notory Art and was a form of magic that gave the user immediate and quick, note-like, knowledge of everything. A bit like Wikipedia perhaps?
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October 6, 2009 | Posted by Mark
I just added a new page in the Magic in the Middle Ages section: Cases of Magic in Medieval England This contains a couple of cases mentioned by Henry Charles Lea in his famous History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages. It is interesting to note that magic was fairly rare as an offence [...]
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