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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 Boxgrove Manual. Frank Klaassen uses these texts, which he argues are representative of the overwhelming majority of magical practitioners, to explain how magic changed during this period and why these developments were crucial to the formation of modern magic. TheBoxgrove Manual is a work of learned ritual magic that synthesizes material from Henry Cornelius Agrippa, the __Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy__, __Heptameron__, and various medieval conjuring works. The Antiphoner Notebook concerns the common magic of treasure hunting, healing, and protection, blending medieval conjuring and charm literature with materials drawn from Reginald Scot's famous anti-magic work, __Discoverie of Witchcraft__. Klaassen painstakingly traces how the scribes who created these two manuscripts adapted and transformed...

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Author

Frank F Klaassen

Publisher

The Pennsylvania State University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780271085159

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Body Mind & Spirit, History, Philosophy