medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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of magic in early medieval Europe / Valerie I.J. Flint. Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press, c1991.
Forbidden rites : a necromancer's manual of the fifteenth century
Richard Kieckhefer. Date: 1997
Magic in the Middle Ages / Richard Kieckhefer. Date: 1990
Tom Izbicki
At 10:50 AM 8/25/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
>Hi folks --
>
>I've read the Henry Lea stuff on the Inquisition and another couple of
>books, more modern, whose authorship I can't remember offhand ('twas a
>while back now). I'm going to be needing to do a fictional treatment of
>the early Inquisition -- Albigensian Crusade-era. What would folks on
>the list suggest as their favorite overviews/starting points?
>
>Another related (as far as the fiction is concerned) question. I'm given
>to understand there was sort of a standing urban legend throughout the
>Middle Ages and Renaissance that a lot of priests/prelates were
>magicians, natural philosophers, Gnostics, occultists,
>devil-worshippers, etc? I'm wondering if there are any good sources that
>explore this idea in detail (I'm interested both in actual historical
>"priestly magic," to the extent that such exists, and laypeople's belief
>in priests who are secretly magicians, heretics or demonolaters).
>
>Thanks very much in advance! (And by the way, thanks for the running
>"Saint of the Day" posts...most informative.)
>
>--Sarah Roark
>
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