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Rewriting Magic

An Exegesis of the Visionary Autobiography of a Fourteenth-Century French Monk

by Claire Fanger

A study of John of Morigny, a Benedictine monk who practised the Ars Notoria, became alarmed by its demonic dangers, and then composed his own Marian replacement, the Book of Flowers of Heavenly Teaching. Fanger reads his visionary autobiography closely to show how a medieval religious understood the boundary between licit devotion and illicit magic. Elegantly written, it illuminates the inner life of a practitioner of angelic learning magic.

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