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Pages: 160
Authors: Frank Klaassen
Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-12-11 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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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 Bo
Crafting the Witch
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Authors: Heidi Breuer
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-05-05 - Publisher: Routledge

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This book analyzes the gendered transformation of magical figures occurring in Arthurian romance in England from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. In the
Witchcraft in Early Modern England
Language: en
Pages: 172
Authors: James Sharpe
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-06 - Publisher: Routledge

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With the renewed interest in the history of witches and witchcraft, this timely book provides an introduction to this fascinating topic, informed by the main tr
Magic, Science, and Religion in Early Modern Europe
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Authors: Mark A. Waddell
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-28 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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From the recovery of ancient ritual magic at the height of the Renaissance to the ignominious demise of alchemy at the dawn of the Enlightenment, Mark A. Waddel
Magic as a Political Crime in Medieval and Early Modern England
Language: en
Pages: 344
Authors: Francis Young
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-30 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Treason and magic were first linked together during the reign of Edward II. Theories of occult conspiracy then regularly led to major political scandals, such a