Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer S Manual of the Fifteenth Century
Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer S Manual of the Fifteenth Century Preserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich is a manuscript that few scholars have noticed and that no one in modern times has…
Specifikacia Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer S Manual of the Fifteenth Century
Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer S Manual of the Fifteenth Century
Preserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich is a manuscript that few scholars have noticed and that no one in modern times has treated with the seriousness it deserves. The result is the most vivid and readable introduction to medieval magic now available.Like many medieval texts for the use of magicians, this handbook is a miscellany rather than a systematic treatise. Forbidden Rites consists of an edition of this medieval Latin text with a full commentary, including detailed analysis of the text and its contents, discussion of the historical context, translation of representative sections of the text, and comparison with other necromantic texts of the late Middle Ages.
It is exceptional, however, in the scope and variety of its contents--prayers and conjurations, rituals of sympathetic magic, procedures involving astral magic, a catalogue of spirits, lengthy
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