Recently added articles from Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft:
Witch-crafting in Roman literature and art: new thoughts on an old image.(Critical essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Historians intrigued by the relationship between representations and realia of Greco-Roman women and witchcraft are faced with a question that is surprisingly difficult to answer: are witches depicted in Greco-Roman art and if so how would we recognize them? Well known are the depictions ...
To condemn a king: the dream of Bernat Metge and King Joan's ties with the occult.(Critical essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... On May 19, 1396, while in hot pursuit of a stag in the woods that bordered the city of Gerona, the count-king of the Crown of Aragon, Joan I, suffered a grievous accident. He lost his grip on his horse, fell, and landed hard upon the ground. Not long afterward, the monarch slipped into a ...
Astral magic in the Renaissance: gems, poetry, and patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici.(Critical essay)
Dec 22, 2008; ... LORENZO'S RING Florentine coppersmith Bartolomeo Masi recorded in his diary in April 1492 that as Lorenzo de' Medici lay dying, a violent storm damaged the Duomo's bell tower and buildings in the Palazzo Medici neighborhood. The storm was caused by the release of a demon that ...
Michael D. Bailey. Magic and Superstition in Europe: A Concise History from Antiquity to the Present.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... MICHAEL D. BAILEY. Magic and Superstition in Europe: A Concise History from Antiquity to the Present. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007. Pp. x + 274. Michael D. Bailey's Magic and Superstition in Europe: A Concise History from Antiquity to the Present successfully ...
Helen A. Berger and Douglas Ezzy. Teenage Witches: Magical Youth and the Search for the Self.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... HELEN A. BERGER AND DOUGLAS EZZY. Teenage Witches: Magical Youth and the Search for the Self. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007. Pp. xvii + 278. This is a study of a relatively new phenomenon: the rise of the teenage witch since the 1990s. Berger and Ezzy have ...
Jean-Patrice Boudet. Entre science et nigromance: Astrologie, divination et magie dans l'Occident medieval (XIIe-XVe siecle).(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... JEAN-PATRICE BOUDET. Entre science et nigromance: Astrologie, divination et magie dans l'Occident medieval (XIIe-XVe siecle). Histoire ancienne et medievale 83. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne, 2006. Pp. 624. No one knows more about late medieval astrology than does ...
Johannes Dillinger. Hexen und Magie: Eine historische Einfuhrung.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... JOHANNES DILLINGER. Hexen und Magie: Eine historische Einfuhrung. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 2007. Pp. 197. Historical research on witchcraft and magic is a burgeoning field, and one sign of the field's richness and success is the production of ever more sophisticated surveys and ...
Michael Mangan. Performing Dark Arts: A Cultural History of Conjuring.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... MICHAEL MANGAN. Performing Dark Arts: A Cultural History of Conjuring. Bristol, U.K.: Intellect Books, 2007. Pp. 252. Michael Mangan's Performing Dark Arts is a lively study of "the way in which the meanings of magic change in relation to the society in which the magic is ...
H. C. Erik Midelfort. Exorcism and Enlightenment: Johann Joseph Gassner and the Demons of Eighteenth-Century Germany.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... H. C. ERIK MIDELFORT. Exorcism and Enlightenment: Johann Joseph Gassner and the Demons of Eighteenth-Century Germany. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2005. Pp. xiii + 219. Once upon a time, scholars were sure that the Reformation had "disenchanted" the world. Max Weber ...
Beatrice Nicolini, ED. Studies in Witchcraft, Magic, War and Peace in Africa: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... BEATRICE NICOLINI, ED. Studies in Witchcraft, Magic, War and Peace in Africa: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006. Pp. 383. The aim of this voluminous collection (twenty contributions) is "to develop further the multiple relationships ...
W. F. Ryan. Russian Magic at the British Library: Books, Manuscripts, Scholars, Travelers.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... W. F. RYAN. Russian Magic at the British Library: Books, Manuscripts, Scholars, Travelers (The Panizzi Lectures 2005). London: The British Library, 2006. Pp. xi + 97. The three Panizzi Lectures were delivered by Professor of Russian Studies Will Ryan at the British Library in ...
Moshe Sluhovsky. Believe Not Every Spirit: Possession, Mysticism, and Discernment in Early Modern Catholicism.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... MOSHE SLUHOVSKY. Believe Not Every Spirit: Possession, Mysticism, and Discernment in Early Modern Catholicism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. x + 374. Meticulously researched and thoughtfully composed, Believe Not Every Spirit investigates the nexus of demonic ...
Claudia Swan. Art, Science, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Holland: Jacques de Gheyn II (1565-1629).(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... CLAUDIA SWAN. Art, Science, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Holland: Jacques de Gheyn II (1565-1629). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xvii + 254. What is real and what fantasy? Where lies the boundary between the perception of nature and illusion? The Dutch ...
Thomas Wunsch. Religion und Magie in Ostmitteleuropa: Spielraume theologischer Normierungsprozesse in Spatmittelalter und Fruher Neuzeit.(Book review)
Dec 22, 2008; ... THOMAS WUNSCH, ed. Religion und Magie in Ostmitteleuropa: Spielraume theologischer Normierungsprozesse in Spatmittelalter und Fruher Neuzeit. Religionsund Kulturgeschichte in Ostmittel- und Sudosteuropa 8. Munster: LIT Verlag, 2006. Pp. ii + 339. In his introduction to this ...
Recent publications, 2007-8.(List)
Dec 22, 2008 ... Overviews, Surveys, and Theoretical Works Battistini, Matilde. Astrology, Magic, and Alchemy in Art. Trans. Rosanna M. Giammanco Frongia. Los Angeles, 2007. Doering-Manteuffel, Sabine. Das Okkulte: Eine Erfolgsgeschichte im Schatten der Aufklarung von Gutenberg bis ...