Making Magic in Elizabethan England: Two Early Modern Vernacular Books of Magic (Magic in History) by Frank Klaassen
English | December 11th, 2019 | ISBN: 0271083697 | 160 pages | True EPUB | 10.52 MB
This volume presents editions of two fascinating anonymous and untitled manuscripts of magic produced in Elizabethan England: the Antiphoner Notebook and the Boxgrove Manual. Frank Klaassen uses these texts, which he argues are representative of the overwhelming majority of magical practitioners, to explain how magic changed during this period and why these developments were crucial to the formation of modern magic.