Magic and Divination in the Middle Ages: Texts and Techniques in the Islamic and Christian Worlds by Charles Burnett

Magic and Divination in the Middle Ages: Texts and Techniques in the Islamic and Christian Worlds

Variorum Collected Studies

Charles Burnett

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After discussing the terminology of talismanic magic (or necromancy) and its position in divisions of science in the Middle Ages, this book traces the history of talismanic texts from the Classical period through the Arabic world to the Latin Midd...

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