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Solomonic Magic & the Grimoires

Conjuring Spirits

Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic

by Claire Fanger · Claire Fanger (ed.)

A pioneering collection of essays that helped establish medieval ritual magic as a serious field of study. Contributors including Richard Kieckhefer, Nicholas Watson, Frank Klaassen and Robert Mathiesen examine the Ars Notoria, the Sworn Book of Honorius, the Liber de Angelis, necromantic experiments and the scholarly categories used to describe them. Each chapter works closely from manuscripts. Essential background for anyone reading the Latin grimoires and still widely cited by specialists.

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