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Rewriting Magic:

An Exegesis of the Visionary Autobiography of a Fourteenth-Century French Monk
  • ISBN-13: 9780271066509
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Claire Fanger
  • Price: AUD $174.00
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  • Local release date: 14/06/2015
  • Format: Hardback 232 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Alternative belief systems [HRQ]
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Examines the text and background of The Flowers of Heavenly Teaching, an autobiography by the fourteenth-century Benedictine monk John of Morigny. Explores how the author negotiated the categories of magic and heresy in relation to Christianity.


CONTENTS

List of Figures

Preface

Structure and Referencing System for the

Liber florum New Compilation / xiii Introduction: Lost and Found Knowledge

Part 1 Foundation

Chapter 1 Like Stones of fire: I Encounter the Book of Visions

Chapter 2 A Mysticism of Signs and Things: The Ars Notoria and the Sacraments

Chapter 3 Penance: The Sacrament of the Middle of Life

Part 2 Restoration

Chapter 4 Errors of Intellect, Errors of Will: I Encounter the Book of Figures

Chapter 5 Magical Objects of Knowledge: Categorizing the Exceptive Arts

Chapter 6 Visionary Exegesis and Prophecy: Milk and Meat

Conclusion: Future History

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index


“[Rewriting Magic] represents a refreshingly honest account of a scholar’s attempt to overcome the problem of understanding and analysing a form of medieval religiosity that relied upon lived experience.”

—Michael D. Barbezat, Parergon

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