The Magic of Rogues
The Magic of Rogues

Author: Frank Klaassen

Publisher: Magic in History Sourcebooks

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780271089294

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In 1510, nine men were tried in the Archbishop's Court in York for attempting to find and extract a treasure on the moor near Mixindale through necromantic magic. Two decades later, William Neville and his magician were arrested by Thomas Cromwell for having engaged in a treasonous combination of magic practices and prophecy surrounding the death of William's older brother, Lord Latimer, and the king. In The Magic of Rogues, Frank Klaassen and Sharon Hubbs Wright present the legal documents about and open a window onto these fascinating investigations of magic practitioners in early Tudor England. Set side by side with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century texts that describe the sorts of magic those practitioners performed, these documents are translated, contextualized, and presented in language accessible to nonspecialist readers. Their analysis reveals how magicians and cunning folk operated in extended networks in which they exchanged knowledge, manuscripts, equipment, and even clients; foregrounds magicians' encounters with authority in ways that separate them from traditional narratives about witchcraft and witch trials; and suggests that the regulation and punishment of magic in the Tudor period were comparatively and perhaps surprisingly gentle. Incorporating the study of both intellectual and legal sources, The Magic of Rogues presents a well-rounded picture of illicit learned magic in early Tudor England. Engaging and accessible, this book will appeal to anyone seeking to understand the intersection of medieval legal history, religion, magic, esotericism, and Tudor history.

The Magic of Rogues
The Magic of Rogues

Author: Frank Klaassen

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2021-02-19

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 0271089547

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In 1510, nine men were tried in the Archbishop’s Court in York for attempting to find and extract a treasure on the moor near Mixindale through necromantic magic. Two decades later, William Neville and his magician were arrested by Thomas Cromwell for having engaged in a treasonous combination of magic practices and prophecy surrounding the death of William’s older brother, Lord Latimer, and the king. In The Magic of Rogues, Frank Klaassen and Sharon Hubbs Wright present the legal documents about and open a window onto these fascinating investigations of magic practitioners in early Tudor England. Set side by side with sixteenth- and seventeenth-century texts that describe the sorts of magic those practitioners performed, these documents are translated, contextualized, and presented in language accessible to nonspecialist readers. Their analysis reveals how magicians and cunning folk operated in extended networks in which they exchanged knowledge, manuscripts, equipment, and even clients; foregrounds magicians’ encounters with authority in ways that separate them from traditional narratives about witchcraft and witch trials; and suggests that the regulation and punishment of magic in the Tudor period were comparatively and perhaps surprisingly gentle. Incorporating the study of both intellectual and legal sources, The Magic of Rogues presents a well-rounded picture of illicit learned magic in early Tudor England. Engaging and accessible, this book will appeal to anyone seeking to understand the intersection of medieval legal history, religion, magic, esotericism, and Tudor history.

Rogues and Early Modern English Culture
Rogues and Early Modern English Culture

Author: Craig Dionne

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2004-04-07

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 0472113747

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A definitive collection of critical essays on the literary and cultural impact of the early modern rogue

Making Magic in Elizabethan England
Making Magic in Elizabethan England

Author: Frank Klaassen

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2019-12-11

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 0271085177

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This volume presents editions of two fascinating anonymous and untitled manuscripts of magic produced in Elizabethan England: the Antiphoner Notebook and the Boxgrove Manual. Frank Klaassen uses these texts, which he argues are representative of the overwhelming majority of magical practitioners, to explain how magic changed during this period and why these developments were crucial to the formation of modern magic. The Boxgrove Manual is a work of learned ritual magic that synthesizes material from Henry Cornelius Agrippa, the Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy, Heptameron, and various medieval conjuring works. The Antiphoner Notebook concerns the common magic of treasure hunting, healing, and protection, blending medieval conjuring and charm literature with materials drawn from Reginald Scot’s famous anti-magic work, Discoverie of Witchcraft. Klaassen painstakingly traces how the scribes who created these two manuscripts adapted and transformed their original sources. In so doing, he demonstrates the varied and subtle ways in which the Renaissance, the Reformation, new currents in science, the birth of printing, and vernacularization changed the practice of magic. Illuminating the processes by which two sixteenth-century English scribes went about making a book of magic, this volume provides insight into the wider intellectual culture surrounding the practice of magic in the early modern period.

Rogue Magic
Rogue Magic

Author: N. R. Hairston

Publisher: Fire Ink Media, LLC

Published: 2018-08-10

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780999043424

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My name's Rekia, and I'm wanted dead or alive. So, how does a small town girl from the south end up in the fight for her life between two powerful worlds? It's simple. I have the ability to open portals to alternate dimensions. This works out great for my business. I take crooks, thieves, criminals on the run from the law, etc. . . and I hide them where they'll never be found- in one of the many alternate worlds- for a small fee of course.Everything's going fine until I discover a secret plot between two powerful worlds that could have widespread conquests across all dimensions. Now I've made enemies of the wrong people, and they're coming for me. I could walk away. I could hide myself on some inconspicuous world and never look back. Except, there's a fire in my gut now, and like a dog with a bone, I'm not letting this go. So instead of hiding, I crack my neck, flex my hands, and tell them to bring it. This may very well mean my death, but I don't plan on going down without a fight.

The Lady Rogue
The Lady Rogue

Author: Jenn Bennett

Publisher: Simon Pulse

Published: 2019-09-03

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1534431993

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“A swashbuckling adventure.” —Booklist “A rollicking Indiana Jones flick with a female lead.” —BCCB The Last Magician meets A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue in this thrilling, “breathless” (Kirkus Reviews) tale filled with magic and set in the mysterious Carpathian Mountains where a girl must hunt down Vlad the Impaler’s cursed ring in order to save her father. Some legends never die… Traveling with her treasure-hunting father has always been a dream for Theodora. She’s read every book in his library, has an impressive knowledge of the world’s most sought-after relics, and has all the ambition in the world. What she doesn’t have is her father’s permission. That honor goes to her father’s nineteen-year-old protégé—and once-upon-a-time love of Theodora’s life—Huck Gallagher, while Theodora is left to sit alone in her hotel in Istanbul. Until Huck returns from an expedition without her father and enlists Theodora’s help in rescuing him. Armed with her father’s travel journal, the reluctant duo learns that her father had been digging up information on a legendary and magical ring that once belonged to Vlad the Impaler—more widely known as Dracula—and that it just might be the key to finding him. Journeying into Romania, Theodora and Huck embark on a captivating adventure through Gothic villages and dark castles in the misty Carpathian Mountains to recover the notorious ring. But they aren’t the only ones who are searching for it. A secretive and dangerous occult society with a powerful link to Vlad the Impaler himself is hunting for it, too. And they will go to any lengths—including murder—to possess it.

Origins of the Witches’ Sabbath
Origins of the Witches’ Sabbath

Author: Michael D. Bailey

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2021-02-04

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 0271089512

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While the perception of magic as harmful is age-old, the notion of witches gathering together in large numbers, overtly worshiping demons, and receiving instruction in how to work harmful magic as part of a conspiratorial plot against Christian society was an innovation of the early fifteenth century. The sources collected in this book reveal this concept in its formative stages. The idea that witches were members of organized heretical sects or part of a vast diabolical conspiracy crystalized most clearly in a handful of texts written in the 1430s and clustered geographically around the arc of the western Alps. Michael D. Bailey presents accessible English translations of the five oldest surviving texts describing the witches’ sabbath and of two witch trials from the period. These sources, some of which were previously unavailable in English or available only in incomplete or out-of-date translations, show how perceptions of witchcraft shifted from a general belief in harmful magic practiced by individuals to a conspiratorial and organized threat that led to the witch hunts that shook northern Europe and went on to influence conceptions of diabolical witchcraft for centuries to come. Origins of the Witches’ Sabbath makes freshly available a profoundly important group of texts that are key to understanding the cultural context of this dark chapter in Europe’s history. It will be especially valuable to those studying the history of witchcraft, medieval and early modern legal history, religion and theology, magic, and esotericism.

Enchanted Rogues
Enchanted Rogues

Author: Lynn LaFleur

Publisher: Ellora's Cave

Published: 2005-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781419952364

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Mirage By Lynn LaFleur Kaci Montgomery has lost the most precious member of her family-her great-grandmother, Nana. Kaci treasures the antique necklace and mirror that Nana left to her. When Kaci touches the necklace and looks in the mirror, she sees a man.a man who quickly captures her heart. Ryne Wilkinson has been seeing visions of a beautiful blonde.and he keeps getting visits from a four-inch fairy named Shae, who swears the blonde is the woman meant for him. Sparks fly when Kaci and Ryne meet. But are they truly falling in love, or simply falling under the spell of an Irish legend? Must Be Magic By Lani Aames To save his princedom from the greedy Faerie King, the Prince of Pixieland must marry by the next Equinox. A desperate spell hurls him into the realm of his Heart Match-who just happens to be a mortal woman! Cast into the Other Realm-the human world-on St. Patrick's Day, Prince Myghal pursues Kerry O'Neill with physical pleasures beyond her wildest dreams. He has only three days to convince her that they are meant to be together. Kerry has to believe that the man she had fantastic sex with and is falling hard for is actually the Prince of Pixies. She must accept it, because she has to brave the tunnels of the Troll who lives under the bridge across the street to save Myghal. And her heart has known all along that their incredible connection must be magic. You've Got Irish Male By Titania Ladley When sex-toy business owner Mischa Roxbury opens a virus-spell E-mail that brings forth a handsome, strapping leprechaun, she becomes lost in his lusty, magical world. Fighting the spell proves futile, for her inhibitions are stripped.along with her clothes. Unable to keep her hands off the Irish rogue, mutant leprechaun Grady O'Donovan, she soon finds out there are only two ways she can have him. Either he has to give up his immortality, or she must forfeit her rewarding career, her beloved computer.and her life!

Bound by Blood
Bound by Blood

Author: Tiffany Shand

Publisher: Tiffany Shand

Published:

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13:

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Her parents slain. Her throne taken. Now everyone thinks she’s the murderer. Ann was destined to become the Archdruid—now she’s spent five years as a rogue where magic has been outlawed by her usurper, Orla, the demon who ruined her life. Ann’s bloodline holds the key Orla needs to throw the five lands of Almara into complete and utter chaos—but she’ll have to catch her first. While on the run with her brother Xander and her best friend Edward Rohn, Ann collects the rogues of magic to her cause. Magic might be outlawed, but this isn’t the first time the five lands has been ruled by a tyrant, but it is the first time Ann is here to lead a rebellion of magical outcasts. It’s finally time to fight back.

Rogues
Rogues

Author: Patrick Radden Keefe

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2022-06-28

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0385548524

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the award-winning author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing—and one of the most decorated journalists of our time—twelve enthralling true stories of skulduggery and intrigue "An excellent collection of Keefe's detective work, and a fine introduction to his illuminating writing." —NPR “Fast-paced...Keefe is a virtuoso storyteller." —The Washington Post Patrick Radden Keefe has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award to the Orwell Prize to the National Book Critics Circle Award for his meticulously-reported, hypnotically-engaging work on the many ways people behave badly. Rogues brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from The New Yorker. As Keefe says in his preface “They reflect on some of my abiding preoccupations: crime and corruption, secrets and lies, the permeable membrane separating licit and illicit worlds, the bonds of family, the power of denial.” Keefe brilliantly explores the intricacies of forging $150,000 vintage wines, examines whether a whistleblower who dared to expose money laundering at a Swiss bank is a hero or a fabulist, spends time in Vietnam with Anthony Bourdain, chronicles the quest to bring down a cheerful international black market arms merchant, and profiles a passionate death penalty attorney who represents the “worst of the worst,” among other bravura works of literary journalism. The appearance of his byline in The New Yorker is always an event, and collected here for the first time readers can see his work forms an always enthralling but deeply human portrait of criminals and rascals, as well as those who stand up against them.