Magic and Divination in the Middle Ages
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Magic and Divination in the Middle Ages

Texts and Techniques in the Islamic and Christian Worlds

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eBook - ePub

Magic and Divination in the Middle Ages

Texts and Techniques in the Islamic and Christian Worlds

About this book

After discussing the terminology of talismanic magic (or necromancy) and its position in divisions of science in the Middle Ages, this book traces the history of talismanic texts from the Classical period through the Arabic world to the Latin Middle Ages. The principal authorities are Hermes and Aristotle, and the search for the 'secret knowledge' of these ancient sages is shown to have been a catalyst for the translating activity from Arabic into Latin in 12th-century Spain. The second half of the volume is devoted to examples of the kinds of divination prevalent in Arabic and Latin-reading societies: chiromancy, onomancy, scapulimancy, geomancy and fortune-telling. The book ends with advice on when to practice alchemy and a prophetic letter of supposed Arabic provenance, warning of the coming of the Mongols. Several editions of previously unedited texts are included, with translations.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9780860786153
eBook ISBN
9781040248577
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
World History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series
  3. Half Title
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. I Talismans: magic as science? Necromancy among the Seven Liberal Arts
  10. II Adelard, Ergaphalau and the science of the stars
  11. III Arabic, Greek, and Latin works on astrological magic attributed to Aristotle
  12. IV The translating activity in medieval Spain
  13. V The legend of the three Hermes and AbÅ« Maā€˜sharā€™s Kitāb al-UlÅ«f in the Latin Middle Ages
  14. VI Hermann of Carinthia and the kitāb al-lstamātīs: further evidence for the transmission of Hermetic magic
  15. VII The kitāb al-Istamātīs and a manuscript of astrological and astronomical works from Barcelona (Biblioteca de Catalunya, 634)
  16. VIII Scandinavian runes in a Latin magical treatise
  17. IX The Conte de Sarzana magical manuscript
  18. X The earliest chiromancy in the West
  19. Chiromancy: supplement. The principal Latin texts on chiromancy extant in the Middle Ages
  20. XI The Eadwine Psalter and the western tradition of the onomancy in Pseudo-Aristotleā€™s Secret of Secrets
  21. XII Scapulimancy (divination by the shoulder blades of sheep)
  22. XIII Arabic divinatory texts and Celtic folklore: a comment on the theory and practice of scapulimancy in Western Europe
  23. XIV Divination from sheepā€™s shoulder blades: a reflection on Andalusian society
  24. XV An Islamic divinatory technique in medieval Spain: An edition of the earliest Latin Scapulimancy (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Canon. Misc. 396, fols 108r-112r) with translation
  25. XVI The scapulimancy of Giorgio Anselmiā€™s Divinum opus de magia disciplina
  26. XVII What is the Experimentarius of Bernardus Silvestris? A preliminary survey of the material
  27. XVIII A note on two astrological fortune-telling tables
  28. XIX The astrologerā€™s assay of the alchemist: early references to alchemy in Arabic and Latin Texts
  29. XX An apocryphal letter from the Arabic philosopher al-Kindi to Theodore, Frederick IIā€™s astrologer, concerning Gog and Magog, the enclosed nations, and the scourge of the Mongols
  30. Addenda et corrigenda
  31. Index nominum
  32. Index manuscriptorum
  33. Index initiorum