Canadian Journal of History, August 1st, 2000
Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century, by Richard Kieckhefer. University Park, Pennsylvania, Penn State University Press, 1997. viii, 384 pp. $60.00 U.S. (cloth), $19.95 U.S. (paper). The history of literate magic in the middle ages has tended to be based upon records of court cases or views of magic in literature and philosophy. The perspective which these sources offer is generally not that of a magical practitioner. Those brought up on charges of magic, if they were in fact practitioners at all, were usually in court because they had been very public about their ...
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