This series looks at the history of witchcraft and magic in Europe from the earliest times to the present day. This volume looks at the Middle Ages.

This series looks at the history of witchcraft and magic in Europe from the earliest times to the present day. This volume looks at the Middle Ages.

Of the twenty-five essays in this volume, most were published between 1961 and 2013, but four are printed here for the first time. They represent the work of a great and original scholar in Mediterranean history whose unflagging interest in Frederick II and his world consistently led him out into broader fields, which he always viewed in original ways. In an age often called that of papal monarchy and secular-minded rulers, Powell found popes with complex agendas and extensive pastoral concerns, a rather more Christian Frederick II, the human personnel and mechanics of the Fifth Crusade, the...