Invoking Angels

PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9780271051420

Theurgic Ideas and Practices, Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries

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Edited by Claire Fanger
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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Theurgy, Magic, and Mysticism

Claire Fanger

I. Texts of the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries

1 Magic, Theurgy, and Spirituality in the Medieval Ritual of the Ars notoria

Julien Véronèse (English translation by Claire Fanger)

2 Uplifting Souls: The Liber de essentia spirituum and the Liber Razielis

Sophie Page

3 The Liber iuratus Honorii and the Christian Reception of Angel Magic

Katelyn Mesler

4 Honorius and the Sigil of God: The Liber iuratus in Berengario Ganell’s Summa sacre magice

Jan R. Veenstra

5 Covenant and the Divine Name: Revisiting the Liber iuratus and John of Morigny’s Liber florum

Claire Fanger

II. Late Fourteenth- Through Sixteenth-Century Texts

6 Antonio da Montolmo’s De occultis et manifestis or Liber intelligentiarum: An Annotated Critical Edition with English Translation and Introduction

Nicolas Weill-Parot (in collaboration with Julien Véronèse)

7 Between the March of Ancona and Florence: Jewish Magic and a Christian Text

Harvey J. Hames

8 Language, Secrecy, and the Mysteries of Law: Theurgy and the Christian Kabbalah of Johannes Reuchlin

Elliot R. Wolfson

9 Ritual Invocation and Early Modern Science: The Skrying Experiments of Humphrey Gilbert

Frank Klaassen

Selected Bibliography

Index


“Just as Conjuring Spirits did for medieval ritual magic, Invoking Angels has set a new path for the field of medieval theurgy.”

—Laura Mitchell, Preternature

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