Textual Magic: Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England Hindley Katherine Storm
An expansive consideration of charms as a deeply integrated aspect of the English Middle Ages.Katherine Storm Hindley explores words at their most powerful: words that people expected would physically…
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An expansive consideration of charms as a deeply integrated aspect of the English Middle Ages.Katherine Storm Hindley explores words at their most powerful: words that people expected would physically change the world. Medieval Europeans often resorted to the use of spoken or written charms to ensure health or fend off danger. Hindley draws on an unprecedented archive, based on her own extensive research, composing an original sampling of more than a thousand such charms from medieval England--more than twice the number gathered, transcribed, and edited in previous studies, and including many texts still unknown to specialists on this topic. Focusing on charms from the so-called fallow period (1100-1350 CE) of English history, and on previously unstudied texts in Latin, Anglo-Norman, French, and English, Hindley addresses important questions of how people thought about