Magic in the Cloister : Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe.

COVER Front -- Series Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Notes to Introduction -- Chapter 1: Monks and their Magic Texts at St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2: Natural Magic: The Basilisk and the Lodestone -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3: The Liber vaccae: Magical Uses of Monstrous Creations -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4: Image Magic: Harnessing Power in the Harmonious Universe -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5: The Liber de essentia spirituum: Magic, Revelation, and Fellowship with Spirits -- Notes to Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6: The Ars notoria and Its Monastic Audience -- Notes to Chapter 6 -- Epilogue: John Dee, St. Augustine's Manuscripts, and Renaissance Magic -- Notes to Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Translation of the Glossulae super Librum imaginum lunae -- Notes to Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2: Translation of the Liber de essentia spirituum -- Notes to Appendix 2 -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- COVER Back.

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