Magic and natural philosophy -- Scholastic image magic before 1500 -- Some apparent exceptions : image magic or necromancy? The Ars notoria and the Sworn book of honorius -- The magic of demons and angels -- Sixteenth-century collections of magic texts -- Medieval ritual magic and Renaissance magic
Summary
This book explores two principal genres of illicit learned magic in late Medieval manuscripts: image magic, which could be interpreted and justified in scholastic terms, and ritual magic, which could not. -- Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-265) and index
