The Middle Ages Unlocked
Author: Gillian Polack
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2015-06-15
Total Pages: 562
ISBN-13: 1445645890
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA unique guide to all aspects of life in the Middle Ages.
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Unlocked Books
Author: Benedek Lang
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0271033789
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the Middle Ages, the Western world translated the incredible Arabic scientific corpus and imported it into Western culture: Arabic philosophy, optics, and physics, as well as alchemy, astrology, and talismanic magic. The line between the scientific and the magical was blurred. According to popular lore, magicians of the Middle Ages were trained in the art of magic in &“magician schools&” located in various metropolitan areas, such as Naples, Athens, and Toledo. It was common knowledge that magic was learned and that cities had schools designed to teach the dark arts. The Spanish city of Toledo, for example, was so renowned for its magic training schools that &“the art of Toledo&” was synonymous with &“the art of magic.&” Until Benedek L&áng&’s work on Unlocked Books, little had been known about the place of magic outside these major cities. A principal aim of Unlocked Books is to situate the role of central Europe as a center for the study of magic. L&áng helps chart for us how the thinkers of that day&—clerics, courtiers, and university masters&—included in their libraries not only scientific and religious treatises but also texts related to the field of learned magic. These texts were all enlisted to solve life&’s questions, whether they related to the outcome of an illness or the meaning of lines on one&’s palm. Texts summoned angels or transmitted the recipe for a magic potion. L&áng gathers magical texts that could have been used by practitioners in late fifteenth-century central Europe.
Unlocked
Author: Ryan G. Van Cleave
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2011-03-01
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 0802721869
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile trying to impress a beautiful, unattainable classmate, fourteen-year-old Andy discovers that a fellow social outcast may be planning an act of school violence.
Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic
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Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 0271042419
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnlocked Book 8.5
Author: Shannon Messenger
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2020-11-17
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 1534463437
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBook 8.5 in the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series delivers what fans of the series have been begging for! Told in an exciting new way, the saga continues with plenty of huge reveals and shocking new twists—plus a complete series guide with beautiful black-and-white illustrations and other awesome bonuses! In this extra special installment of the Keeper of the Lost Cities series, the story picks up right from Legacy’s particularly devastating cliffhanger. But chapters alternate between Sophie and Keefe’s perspectives to give readers deeper insights into both beloved characters. New powers will be discovered. Hard truths from the past will come to light. And all of your favorite characters will find themselves tested in ways they never imagined. And that’s not all! Unlocked also includes a comprehensive guide to the world of the Lost Cities, featuring new character and world details that have never been revealed before—plus fun bonuses like Keeper-themed recipes, a detailed map of the Lost Cities, gorgeous illustrations, and so much more!
Magic in the Cloister
Author: Sophie Page
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2013-10-21
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 0271062975
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries a group of monks with occult interests donated what became a remarkable collection of more than thirty magic texts to the library of the Benedictine abbey of St. Augustine’s in Canterbury. The monks collected texts that provided positive justifications for the practice of magic and books in which works of magic were copied side by side with works of more licit genres. In Magic in the Cloister, Sophie Page uses this collection to explore the gradual shift toward more positive attitudes to magical texts and ideas in medieval Europe. She examines what attracted monks to magic texts, in spite of the dangers involved in studying condemned works, and how the monks combined magic with their intellectual interests and monastic life. By showing how it was possible for religious insiders to integrate magical studies with their orthodox worldview, Magic in the Cloister contributes to a broader understanding of the role of magical texts and ideas and their acceptance in the late Middle Ages.
The Transformations of Magic
Author: Frank Klaassen
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0271056266
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Explores two principal genres of illicit learned magic in late Medieval manuscripts: image magic, which could be interpreted and justified in scholastic terms, and ritual magic, which could not"--Provided by publisher.
Feudal America
Author: Vladimir Shlapentokh
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 0271037814
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Uses a feudal model to analyze contemporary American society, comparing its essential characteristics to those of medieval European societies"--Provided by publisher.
A Dictionary of Medieval Heroes
Author: Willem Pieter Gerritsen
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780851157801
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The different cultures from which the middle ages drew its inspiration are represented: Cu Cuchulainn from the Celtic world, Apollonius of Tyre from Greek romance, Attila the Hun and Theodoric the Ostrogoth from the struggle of the Roman empire against the Barbarians. Each entry gives an outline of the story, how it spread through Europe, its modern retelling and appearances in art, and a selective bibliography."--Jacket.
Heretics and Scholars in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1200
Author: Heinrich Fichtenau
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780271043746
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe struggle over fundamental issues erupted with great fury in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. In this book preeminent medievalist Heinrich Fichtenau turns his attention to a new attitude that emerged in Western Europe around the year 1000. This new attitude was exhibited both in the rise of heresy in the general population and in the self-confident rationality of the nascent schools. With his characteristic learning and insight, Fichtenau shows how these two separate intellectual phenomena contributed to a medieval world that was never quite as uniform as might appear from our modern perspective.
