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Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century
by Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century
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Preserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich is a manuscript that few scholars have noticed and that no one in modern times has treated with the seriousness it deserves. Forbidden Rites consists of an edition of this medieval Latin text with a full commentary, including detailed analysis of the text and its contents, discussion of the historical context, translation of representative sections of the text, and comparison with other necromantic texts of the late Middle Ages. Like many medieval texts for the use of magicians, it is a miscellany rather than a systematic treatise. It is exceptional, however, in the scope and variety of its contents - prayers and conjurations, rituals of sympathetic magic, procedures involving astral magic, a catalogue of spirits, lengthy ceremonies for consecrating a book of magic, and other materials.
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- Penn State University Pre Brand
- Sep 15, 1998 Pub Date:
- 9780271017518 ISBN-13:
- 0271017511 ISBN-10:
- 392 Pages
- English Language
- 9.29 in * 6.26 in * 1.09 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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