Making Magic in Elizabethan England - Two Early Modern Vernacular Books of Magic

Examines two anonymous manuscripts of magic produced in Elizabethan England: the Antiphoner Notebook and the Boxgrove Manual. Explores how scribes assembled these texts within wider cultural developments surrounding early modern forms of magic.

About the author

Frank Klaassen is Associate Professor of History at the University of Saskatchewan. His recent publications include the award-winning book The Transformations of Magic: Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance, also published by Penn State University Press.

Summary

Examines two anonymous manuscripts of magic produced in Elizabethan England: the Antiphoner Notebook and the Boxgrove Manual. Explores how scribes assembled these texts within wider cultural developments surrounding early modern forms of magic.

Product details

• Authors: Frank Klaassen
• Assisted by: Frank Klaassen (Editor), Frank (Associate Professor Klaassen (Editor), Klaassen Frank (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.07.2019
• EAN: 9780271083681
• ISBN: 978-0-271-08368-1
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 235 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 431 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Magic in History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / History, HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Magick Studies, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Occultism, History of Religion, Magic, spells and alchemy, Magic, alchemy & hermetic thought, Occult Studies