The Routledge History of Medieval Magic

Sophie Page is an Associate Professor in Late Medieval History at UCL. She is working on medieval magic and astrology, especially in relation to religion, natural philosophy, medicine, and cosmology. Catherine Rider is an Associate Professor in Medieval History at the University of Exeter. Her research focuses on the history of magic in the later Middle Ages, looking especially at the relationship between magic and the medieval church.

Introduction



Sophie Page and Catherine Rider

Part I: Conceptualizing magic

1 Rethinking how to define magic



Richard Kieckhefer

2 For magic: Against method



Claire Fanger

3 A discourse historical approach towards medieval



learned magic



Bernd-Christian Otto

4 The concept of magic



David. L. d’Avray

5 Responses



Richard Kieckhefer, David. L. d’Avray, Bernd-Christian Ott o, and Claire Fanger

Part I I: Languages and dissemination

6 Arabic magic: The impetus for translating texts and their



reception



Charles Burnett

7 The Latin encounter with Hebrew magic: Problems



and approaches



Katelyn Mesler

8 Magic in Romance languages



Sebastia Giralt

9 Central and Eastern Europe



Benedek Lang

10 Magic in Celtic lands



Mark Williams

11 Scandinavia



Stephen A. Mitchell

Part I I I: Key genres and figures

12 From Hermetic magic to the magic of marvels



Antonella Sannino

13 The notion of properties: Tensions between

Scientia and Ars in medieval natural philosophy



and magic



Isabelle Draelants

14 Solomonic magic



Julien Veronese

15 Necromancy



Frank Klaassen

16 John of Morigny



Claire Fanger and Nicholas Watson

17 Cecco d’Ascoli and Antonio da Montolmo: The building



of a “nigromantical” cosmology and the birth of the



author-magician



Nicolas Weill-Parot

18 Beringarius Ganellus and the Summa sacre magice: Magic



as the promotion of God’s Kingship



Damaris Aschera Gehr

19 Jerome Torrella and “Astrological Images”



Nicolas Weill-Parot

20 Peter of Zealand



Jean-Marc Mandosio

Part IV: Themes (magic and…)

21 Magic and natural philosophy



St even P. Marrone

22 Medicine and magic



Peter Murray Jones and Lea T. Olsan

23 Illusion



Robert Goulding

24 Magic at court



Jean-Patrice Boudet

25 Magic and gender



Catherine Rider

26 Magic in literature: Romance transformations



Corinne Saunders

27 Music



John Haines

28 Magic and archaeology: Ritual residues and



“odd” deposits



Roberta Gilchrist

29 The visual culture of magic in the Middle Ages



Alejandro Garcia Aviles

30 Medieval magical figures: Between image and text



Sophie Page

Part V: Anti-magical discourse in the later Middle Ages

31 Scholasticism and high medieval opposition to magic



David J. Collins

32 Pastoral literature and preaching



Kathleen Kamerick

33 Superstition and sorcery



Michael D. Bailey

34 Witchcraft



Mart ine Ostorero

35 Epilogue: Cosmology and magic – The angel of Mars