Magic in the Cloister: Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe by Sophie Page (The Pennsyvania State University Press, 2013) Paperback

Magic in the Cloister: Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe by Sophie Page (The Pennsyvania State University Press, 2013) PaperbackSophie Page. Magic in the Cloister: Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe, Magic in History. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013. Paperback edition. 232 pages. Condition: New Description from the publisher: "During the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries a group of monks with occult interests donated what became a remarkable collection of more than thirty magic texts

and magical practices

Beyond Enlightenment examines the social

Catherine Raudvere

From the blood-thirsty Gods of the Aztec empire to the infernal Queen of the Babylonians

albeit utterly profound journey

to bind or escape from—the divine powers of heaven and earth

ecclesiastical

evolution and influence of the Petwo rite that was pivotal in the Haitian slave revolts and subsequent revolution

Divination From A Corpse:

Tight binding

That the church took these fairy beliefs so seriously suggests that they were ideologically loaded

Introduction