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Forbidden Rites : A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century by Richard Kieckhefer (1998, Trade Paperback)

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Weight: 1.38 lbs. Number of Pages: 392. ISBN10: 0271017511. Publication Date: 1998-02-27. Publisher: Penn State University Press.

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PublisherPennsylvania STATE University Press

ISBN-100271017511

ISBN-139780271017518

eBay Product ID (ePID)916808

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Book TitleForbidden Rites : a Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century

Number of Pages392 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicDemonology & Satanism, Europe / Germany, Magick Studies, Europe / Medieval

Publication Year1998

IllustratorYes

GenreReligion, Body, Mind & Spirit, History

AuthorRichard Kieckhefer

Book SeriesMagic in History Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight22.1 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.2 in

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LCCN97-026745

Dewey Edition21

Reviews" Forbidden Rites lays a solid foundation for future research on this topic and establishes a very high scholarly standard." --Frank Klaassen Canadian Journal of History, " Forbidden Rites opens a window onto aspects of late-medieval religion and culture that have often been hidden in the shadows. The material is fascinating, the arguments compelling. . . . All told, this is one of the most important works on late medieval magic from one of its most perceptive historians." --Rudolph Paul Almasy Sixteenth Century Journal, "I was captivated . . . by Forbidden Rites , part of an excellent series under the rubric Magic in History; with wonderful wit and succinct contextual insights, Richard Kieckhefer has edited a German wizard's grimoire, packed with spells for Prospero-like conjurations of phantom banquets and castles in the air, as well as complicated charms, many involving hoopoes, against all manner of ills." --Marina Warner, Times Literary Supplement, &"Forbidden Rites lays a solid foundation for future research on this topic and establishes a very high scholarly standard.&" &-Frank Klaassen, Canadian Journal of History, " Forbidden Rites opens a window onto aspects of late-medieval religion and culture that have often been hidden in the shadows. The material is fascinating, the arguments compelling. . . . All told, this is one of the most important works on late medieval magic from one of its most perceptive historians." --Rudolph Paul Almasy, Sixteenth Century Journal, "This book provides a vivid and detailed picture of medieval magical practice from the inside. With his edition of the Latin text and thorough analysis which accompanies it, Professor Kieckhefer has made accessible the aims, intents, and mentalities of the medieval necromancer." -Gillian Pritchard, Medieval History, &"This book is enormously important. Building on his previous work, especially Magic in the Middle Ages (Cambridge, 1989), the author develops his formative insights into the subject of religion and magic in the late Middle Ages and also offers an edition of a truncated, therefore authorless and titleless, fifteenth-century manuscript (in Munich Clm 849) of a magical handbook.&" &-Jeffrey Burton Russell, Church History, "This book is enormously important. Building on his previous work, especially Magic in the Middle Ages (Cambridge, 1989), the author develops his formative insights into the subject of religion and magic in the late Middle Ages and also offers an edition of a truncated, therefore authorless and titleless, fifteenth-century manuscript (in Munich Clm 849) of a magical handbook." --Jeffrey Burton Russell, Church History, "I was captivated . . . by Forbidden Rites, part of an excellent series under the rubric Magic in History; with wonderful wit and succinct contextual insights, Richard Kieckhefer has edited a German wizard's grimoire, packed with spells for Prospero-like conjurations of phantom banquets and castles in the air, as well as complicated charms, many involving hoopoes, against all manner of ills." -Marina Warner, Times Literary Supplement, "Forbidden Rites, in illuminating the continuities between the orthodox and the illicit, greatly enriches our knowledge of this period in which necromancy flourished." -Jane E. Jenkins, ISIS, "I was captivated . . . by Forbidden Rites , part of an excellent series under the rubric Magic in History; with wonderful wit and succinct contextual insights, Richard Kieckhefer has edited a German wizard's grimoire, packed with spells for Prospero-like conjurations of phantom banquets and castles in the air, as well as complicated charms, many involving hoopoes, against all manner of ills." -Marina Warner, Times Literary Supplement, " Forbidden Rites , in illuminating the continuities between the orthodox and the illicit, greatly enriches our knowledge of this period in which necromancy flourished." --Jane E. Jenkins ISIS, &"This book provides a vivid and detailed picture of medieval magical practice from the inside. With his edition of the Latin text and thorough analysis which accompanies it, Professor Kieckhefer has made accessible the aims, intents, and mentalities of the medieval necromancer.&" &-Gillian Pritchard, Medieval History, "This book provides a vivid and detailed picture of medieval magical practice from the inside. With his edition of the Latin text and thorough analysis which accompanies it, Professor Kieckhefer has made accessible the aims, intents, and mentalities of the medieval necromancer." --Gillian Pritchard Medieval History, "This book is enormously important. Building on his previous work, especially Magic in the Middle Ages (Cambridge, 1989), the author develops his formative insights into the subject of religion and magic in the late Middle Ages and also offers an edition of a truncated, therefore authorless and titleless, fifteenth-century manuscript (in Munich Clm 849) of a magical handbook." --Jeffrey Burton Russell Church History, &"Forbidden Rites, in illuminating the continuities between the orthodox and the illicit, greatly enriches our knowledge of this period in which necromancy flourished.&" &-Jane E. Jenkins, ISIS, " Forbidden Rites lays a solid foundation for future research on this topic and establishes a very high scholarly standard." --Frank Klaassen, Canadian Journal of History, "Forbidden Rites opens a window onto aspects of late-medieval religion and culture that have often been hidden in the shadows. The material is fascinating, the arguments compelling. . . . All told, this is one of the most important works on late medieval magic from one of its most perceptive historians." -Rudolph Paul Almasy, Sixteenth Century Journal, "This book provides a vivid and detailed picture of medieval magical practice from the inside. With his edition of the Latin text and thorough analysis which accompanies it, Professor Kieckhefer has made accessible the aims, intents, and mentalities of the medieval necromancer." --Gillian Pritchard, Medieval History, "Forbidden Rites lays a solid foundation for future research on this topic and establishes a very high scholarly standard." -Frank Klaassen, Canadian Journal of History, "Forbidden Rites, in illuminating the continuities between the orthodox and the illicit, greatly enriches our knowledge of this period in which necromancy flourished." --Jane E. Jenkins, ISIS, "This book is enormously important. Building on his previous work, especially Magic in the Middle Ages (Cambridge, 1989), the author develops his formative insights into the subject of religion and magic in the late Middle Ages and also offers an edition of a truncated, therefore authorless and titleless, fifteenth-century manuscript (in Munich Clm 849) of a magical handbook." -Jeffrey Burton Russell, Church History, " Forbidden Rites opens a window onto aspects of late-medieval religion and culture that have often been hidden in the shadows. The material is fascinating, the arguments compelling. . . . All told, this is one of the most important works on late medieval magic from one of its most perceptive historians." -Rudolph Paul Almasy, Sixteenth Century Journal, &"Forbidden Rites opens a window onto aspects of late-medieval religion and culture that have often been hidden in the shadows. The material is fascinating, the arguments compelling. . . . All told, this is one of the most important works on late medieval magic from one of its most perceptive historians.&" &-Rudolph Paul Almasy, Sixteenth Century Journal, " Forbidden Rites , in illuminating the continuities between the orthodox and the illicit, greatly enriches our knowledge of this period in which necromancy flourished." --Jane E. Jenkins, ISIS, &"I was captivated . . . by Forbidden Rites, part of an excellent series under the rubric Magic in History; with wonderful wit and succinct contextual insights, Richard Kieckhefer has edited a German wizard&'s grimoire, packed with spells for Prospero-like conjurations of phantom banquets and castles in the air, as well as complicated charms, many involving hoopoes, against all manner of ills.&" &-Marina Warner, Times Literary Supplement, " Forbidden Rites lays a solid foundation for future research on this topic and establishes a very high scholarly standard." -Frank Klaassen, Canadian Journal of History, "Forbidden Rites lays a solid foundation for future research on this topic and establishes a very high scholarly standard." --Frank Klaassen, Canadian Journal of History, "I was captivated . . . by Forbidden Rites , part of an excellent series under the rubric Magic in History; with wonderful wit and succinct contextual insights, Richard Kieckhefer has edited a German wizard's grimoire, packed with spells for Prospero-like conjurations of phantom banquets and castles in the air, as well as complicated charms, many involving hoopoes, against all manner of ills." --Marina Warner Times Literary Supplement, "Forbidden Rites opens a window onto aspects of late-medieval religion and culture that have often been hidden in the shadows. The material is fascinating, the arguments compelling. . . . All told, this is one of the most important works on late medieval magic from one of its most perceptive historians." --Rudolph Paul Almasy, Sixteenth Century Journal, " Forbidden Rites , in illuminating the continuities between the orthodox and the illicit, greatly enriches our knowledge of this period in which necromancy flourished." -Jane E. Jenkins, ISIS, "I was captivated . . . by Forbidden Rites, part of an excellent series under the rubric Magic in History; with wonderful wit and succinct contextual insights, Richard Kieckhefer has edited a German wizard's grimoire, packed with spells for Prospero-like conjurations of phantom banquets and castles in the air, as well as complicated charms, many involving hoopoes, against all manner of ills." --Marina Warner, Times Literary Supplement

Dewey Decimal133.4/3

SynopsisPreserved 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 ......, Forbidden Rites consists of an edition of one of the most interesting and important manuscripts of medieval magic that has yet come to light. In addition to the Latin text, Kieckhefer provides full commentary, including detailed analysis of the text and its contents, discussion of the historical context, translation of representative sections, and comparison with other necromantic texts of the late Middle Ages., 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. Like many medieval texts for the use of magicians, this handbook is a miscellany rather than a systematic treatise. It is exceptional, however, in the scope and variety of its contents--prayers and conjurations, rituals of sympathetic magic, procedures involving astral magic, a catalogue of spirits, lengthy ceremonies for consecrating a book of magic, and other materials. With more detail on particular experiments than the famous thirteenth-century Picatrix and more variety than the Thesaurus Necromantiae ascribed to Roger Bacon, the manual is one of the most interesting and important manuscripts of medieval magic that has yet come to light.

LC Classification NumberBF1593.K525 1998