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In this original, provocative, well-reasoned, and thoroughly documented book, Frank Klaassen proposes that two principal genres of illicit learned magic occur in late medieval manuscripts: image magic, which could be interpreted and justified in scholastic terms, and ritual magic (in its extreme form, overt necromancy), which could not. Image magic tended to be recopied faithfully; ritual magic tended to be adapted and reworked. These two forms of magic did not usually become intermingled in the

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Author

Frank F. Klaassen

Publisher

Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780271056272

Category

religious

Subjects

Medical, Body Mind & Spirit, Philosophy

Updated

2026-03-25