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

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

Sophie Page

455 pages • first pub 2013 (view editions) user-added

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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During 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. ...

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