Frank Klaassen: 1 book
The Transformations of Magic
Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
In this original, provocative, well-reasoned, and thoroughly documented book, Frank Klaassen proposes that two principal genres of illicit learned magic occur in late medieval manuscripts: image magic, which could be interpreted and justified in scholastic terms, and ritual magic (in its extreme form,...
