Preserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich is a manuscript that few scholars have noticed and that no one in modern times has treated with the seriousness it deserves. Forbidden Rites consists of an edition of this medieval Latin text with a full commentary, including detailed analysis of the text and its contents, discussion of the historical context, translation of representative sections of the text, and comparison with other necromantic texts of the late Middle Ages. The result is the most vivid and readable introduction to medieval magic now available.
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Preserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich is a manuscript that few scholars have noticed and that no one in modern times has treated with t...
This title gives a concise history of Christian theology based on a mysteriously dicovered book of 74 limmericks. The topics the limmericks look at range from Gnostic theology to the early ecumenical councils and much more.
This title gives a concise history of Christian theology based on a mysteriously dicovered book of 74 limmericks. The topics the limmericks look at ra...
