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Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time Unauthenticated Download Date | 4/20/18 1:42 PM Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture Edited by Albrecht Classen and Marilyn Sandidge Volume 20 Unauthenticated Download Date | 4/20/18 1:42 PM Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time The Occult in Pre-Modern Sciences, Medicine, Literature, Religion, and Astrology Edited by Albrecht Classen Unauthenticated Download Date | 4/20/18 1:42 PM . ISBN 978-3-11-055607-0 e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-055772-5 e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-055652-0 ISSN 1864-3396 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress. Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. © 2017 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston Printing and binding: CPI books GmbH, Leck ♾ Printed on acid-free paper Printed in Germany www.degruyter.com Unauthenticated Download Date | 4/20/18 1:42 PM Table of Contents List of Illustrations IX Albrecht Classen Magic in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age – Literature, Science, Religion, Philosophy, Music, and Art. An Introduction 1 Warren Tormey Magical (and Maligned) Metalworkers: Understanding Representations of Early and High Medieval Blacksmiths 109 Chiara Benati Painted Eyes, Magical Sieves and Carved Runes: Charms for Catching and Punishing Thieves in the Medieval and Early Modern Germanic Tradition 149 Aideen M. O’Leary Constructing the Magical Biography of the Irish Druid Mog Ruith 219 Christoph Galle Zum Umgang mit Zauberern im Rahmen frühmittelalterlicher Missionsanstrengungen (Dealing with Magicians Within the Framework of Early Medieval Missionizing Efforts) 231 Nurit Golan Magic and Science: The Portail des libraires, Rouen 259 Christopher R. Clason The Magic of Love: Queen Isolde, the Magician Clinschor, and “Seeing” in Gottfried’s Tristan and Wolfram’s Parzival 291 Rosmarie Thee Morewedge Magical Gifts in Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan und Isolde and the Rejection of Magic 315 Unauthenticated Download Date | 4/20/18 1:42 PM VI TableofContents Cristina Azuela Was Eustace Diabolical? Magic and Devilry in Le roman de Wistasse le moine 337 Anne Berthelot Merlin, or, a Prophet Turning Magician 377 Christa Agnes Tuczay The Book of Zabulon – A Quest for Hidden Secrets: Intertextuality and Magical Genealogy in Middle High German Literature, with an Emphasis on Reinfried von Braunschweig 397 Veronica Menaldi Miracles and Magic: Necromantic Practices Found in Cantiga 125 423 Kathleen Jarchow Magic at the Margins: The Mystification of Maugis d’Aigremont 439 Claire Fanger The Magician at Home with his Family: Comparative Historical Ethnographies of Two Pre- Modern Magicians from Autobiographical Sources: John of Morigny and the Tibetan Monk Milarepa 475 Lisa M. C. Weston Curious Clerks: Image Magic and Chaucerian Poetics 489 Daniel F. Pigg Representing Magic and Science in The Franklin’s Tale and The Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale: Chaucer’s Exploration of Connected Topics 507 Albrecht Classen Magic in Late Medieval German Literature: The Case of the Good Magician Malagis 523 Dalicia K. Raymond Motives, Means, and a Malevolent Mantel: The Case of Morgan le Fay’s Transgressions in Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur 547 Unauthenticated Download Date | 4/20/18 1:42 PM TableofContents VII Amiri Ayanna Witchcraft, Heinrich Kramer’s Nuremburg Handbook, and Ecclesiasticus: The Construction of the Fifteenth-Century Civic Sorceress 565 David Tomíček Magic and Ritual in Late-Medieval and Early-Modern Popular Medicine 591 Elizabeth Chesney Zegura Attempted Murder by Magic: The Sorcerer and His Apprentice in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron 1 609 Thomas Willard How Magical Was Renaissance Magic? 637 Martha Moffitt Peacock Magic in Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen’s Saul and the Witch of Endor 657 Jiří Koten Heterochronic Representation of Magic in Czech Chapbooks 685 Allison P. Coudert Rethinking Max Weber’s Theory of Disenchantment 705 Contributors 741 Index 749 Unauthenticated Download Date | 4/20/18 1:42 PM Unauthenticated Download Date | 4/20/18 1:42 PM List of Illustrations Illustrations of Nurit Golan’s article Fig.: Portaildeslibraires,northportalofthetransept,cathedralofRouen(photo: author) 279 Fig.: Fromtopdown:Creationoftheplants,Genesis,:–;amankillingabasilisk, Portaildeslibraires,rightflank(photo:author) 280 Fig.: Hybridmonster,Portaildeslibraires(photo:author) 281 Fig.: Hybridmonsters,Portaildeslibraires(photo:author) 282 Fig.: HeracleskillingtheNemeanlion(photo:author) 283 Fig.: Thecreationcycleonthetoptier,rightflank,Portaildelibraires(photo: author). 283 Fig.: CreationofAdam,Genesis,:,theCreatorunusuallyshownasaTrinity,Portaildes libraires(photo:author) 284 Fig.: Afamilyofsirens:twoadultsirens,oneplayingaviolin,theotherholdingababysiren, westportal,cathedralofLyon(photo:author) 284 Fig.: Hybridmonster,Grandchapel,Pope’spalaceatAvignon(photo:author) 285 Fig.:Amalesirencombinghishair,Portaildeslibraires(photo:author) 285 Fig.:CreationoftheHeavensandEarth,Gen.:(photo:author). 286 Fig.:SeparationoftheWatersandCreationoftheFirmament,Gen.:–(photo: author) 286 Fig.:CreationofthePlants,Gen.:–(photo:author) 287 Fig.:CreationoftheLuminaries,Gen.:(photo:author) 287 Fig.:TheCreatorisrestingontheseventhday,holdingthecosmosdepictedasanO-Tmap (photo:StuartWhalting,http://www.medievalart.org.uk/Rouen/Portals/Rouen_Portals_ default.htm,lastaccessedonOct.,) 288 Fig.:Ovidemoralisé,Paris,ca.MS,fol,CollectiondelaBibliothèqueMunicipale deRouen 289 Fig.:Hybriddoctorwithaurineflask,Portaildeslibraires,cathedralofRouen 290 Illustrations of Kathleen Jarchow’s article: Fig.: Stemma 440 Fig.: DoondeMayencecycle 472 Illustrations of Thomas Willard’s article: Fig.: FrontispieceofHeinrichKhunrath,AmphitheatrumSapientiaeAeternae().From theWellcomeLibrary,London,wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/L.html (lastaccessedonJul.,). 654 Fig.: TitlepageofChristopherMarlowe,TheTragicalHistoryoftheLifeandDeathofDoctor Faustus().FromWikimediaCommons,https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: Faustus-tragedy.gif?uselang=en-gb(lastaccessedonAug.,). 655 Brought to you by | University of Sydney Authenticated Download Date | 11/27/17 3:05 PM X ListofIllustrations Illustrations of Martha Peacock’s article (all public domain): Fig.: JacobCorneliszvanOostsanen,SaulandtheWitchofEndor,November,, Rijksmuseum,Amsterdam 672 Fig.: AlbrechtDürer,TheWitch,ca.,TheMetropolitanMuseumofArt,New York 673 Fig.: HansBaldungGrien,Witches’Sabbath,,TheMetropolitanMuseumofArt,New York 674 Fig.: DetailfromHieronymusBosch,TheGardenofEarthlyDelights,ca.,Museodel Prado,Madrid 675 Fig.: DetailfromJacobCorneliszvanOostsanen,SaulandtheWitchofEndor,November, ,Rijksmuseum,Amsterdam 676 Fig.: Anonymous,SaulandtheWitchofEndor,FrenchPsalterfragment,ca.,Koninklijke Bibliotheek,TheHague 677 Fig.: Anonymous,SaulandtheWitchofEndor,GermanWorldChronicle,ca.,The MorganLibraryandMuseum,NewYork 678 Fig.: Anonymous,SaulandtheWitchofEndor,UtrechtBible,c.,Koninklijke Bibliotheek,TheHague 678 Fig.: Anonymous,TheRaisingofLazarus,TournaiBookofHours,ca.,Koninklijke Bibliotheek,TheHague 679 Fig.:DetailfromJacobCorneliszvanOostsanen,SaulandtheWitchofEndor,November, ,Rijksmuseum,Amsterdam 680 Fig.:DetailfromClaviculaSalomonis, http://www.esotericarchives.comsolomonksol.htm#chap 680 Fig.:DetailfromJacobCorneliszvanOostsanen,SaulandtheWitchofEndor,November, ,Rijksmuseum,Amsterdam 681 Fig.:DetailfromClaviculaSalomonis,http://www.esotericarchives.comsolomonksol. htm#chap 681 Fig.:DetailfromcopyofMaximilianI’sgrantofarms,latethcentury,Stadsarchief, Amsterdam 682 Fig.:DirckJacobsz,PortraitofPompeiusOcco,ca.,Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 683 Brought to you by | University of Sydney Authenticated Download Date | 11/27/17 3:05 PM

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