Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time : The Occult in Pre-Modern Sciences, Medicine, Literature, Religion, and Astrology.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Magic in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age - Literature, Science, Religion, Philosophy, Music, and Art. An Introduction -- Magical (and Maligned) Metalworkers: Understanding Representations of Early and High Medieval Blacksmiths -- Painted Eyes, Magical Sieves and Carved Runes: Charms for Catching and Punishing Thieves in the Medieval and Early Modern Germanic Tradition -- Constructing the Magical Biography of the Irish Druid Mog Ruith -- Zum Umgang mit Zauberern im Rahmen frühmittelalterlicher Missionsanstrengungen (Dealing with Magicians Within the Framework of Early Medieval Missionizing Efforts) -- Magic and Science: The Portail des libraires, Rouen -- The Magic of Love: Queen Isolde, the Magician Clinschor, and "Seeing" in Gottfried's Tristan and Wolfram's Parzival -- Magical Gifts in Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan und Isolde and the Rejection of Magic -- Was Eustace Diabolical? Magic and Devilry in Le roman de Wistasse le moine -- Merlin, or, a Prophet Turning Magician -- The Book of Zabulon - A Quest for Hidden Secrets: Intertextuality and Magical Genealogy in Middle High German Literature, with an Emphasis on Reinfried von Braunschweig -- Miracles and Magic: Necromantic Practices Found in Cantiga 125 -- Magic at the Margins: The Mystification of Maugis d'Aigremont -- The Magician at Home with his Family: Comparative Historical Ethnographies of Two Pre- Modern Magicians from Autobiographical Sources: John of Morigny and the Tibetan Monk Milarepa -- Curious Clerks: Image Magic and Chaucerian Poetics -- Representing Magic and Science in The Franklin's Tale and The Canon's Yeoman's Tale: Chaucer's Exploration of Connected Topics -- Magic in Late Medieval German Literature: The Case of the Good Magician Malagis.

Motives, Means, and a Malevolent Mantel: The Case of Morgan le Fay's Transgressions in Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur -- Witchcraft, Heinrich Kramer's Nuremburg Handbook, and Ecclesiasticus: The Construction of the Fifteenth-Century Civic Sorceress -- Magic and Ritual in Late-Medieval and Early-Modern Popular Medicine -- Attempted Murder by Magic: The Sorcerer and His Apprentice in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron 1 -- How Magical Was Renaissance Magic? -- Magic in Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen's Saul and the Witch of Endor -- Heterochronic Representation of Magic in Czech Chapbooks -- Rethinking Max Weber's Theory of Disenchantment -- Contributors -- Index.

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