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Solomonic Magic & the Grimoires

Magic in the Cloister

Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe

by Sophie Page

A study of the magical manuscripts owned by the monks of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, around 1500, one of the largest monastic collections of magic texts known. Page reconstructs the library and shows how image magic, astral talismans, angelic texts and even necromancy were read and copied by religious men who saw them as part of understanding God's universe. A fascinating case study in who actually owned the grimoires.

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