Perceptions Of Magic In Medieval Spanish Literature
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Perceptions of Magic in Medieval Spanish Literature
Author: Jennifer M. Corry
language: en
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
Release Date: 2005
It is an attempt to capture a more comprehensive view of medieval Spain's perceptions of magical practice in order to determine why Spain did not explode into Witchcraze, as occurred in so many other European regions when the Middle Ages slipped into the Renaissance."
Love Magic and Control in Premodern Iberian Literature
This book explores the complexity of Iberian identity and multicultural/multi-religious interactions in the Peninsula through the lens of spells, talismans, and imaginative fiction in medieval and early modern Iberia. Focusing particularly on love magic—which manipulates objects, celestial spheres, and demonic conjurings to facilitate sexual encounters—Menaldi examines how practitioners and victims of such magic as represented in major works produced in Castile. Magic, and love magic in particular, is an exchange of knowledge, a claim to power and a deviation from or subversion of the licit practices permitted by authoritative decrees. As such, magic serves as a metaphorical tool for understanding the complex relationships of the Christian with the non-Christian. In seeking to understand and incorporate hidden secrets that presumably reveal how one can manipulate their environment, occult knowledge became one of the funnels through which cultures and practices mixed and adapted throughout the centuries.
Magic in the Middle Ages
Author: Richard Kieckhefer
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2021-09-09
A revised and expanded edition of this fascinating interdisciplinary study of magic in the Middle Ages.