The Transformations of Magic: Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance by Frank Klassen (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013) Paperback

The Transformations of Magic: Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance by Frank Klassen (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013) PaperbackFrank Klassen. The Transformations of Magic: Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013. 280 pages. Condition: New Description from the publisher: "In this original, provocative, well reasoned, and thoroughly documented book, Frank Klaassen proposes that two principal genres of illicit learned magic occur in late medieval manuscripts: image magic, which could be

Professor Klaus Arnold

West Stockbridge

With its unprecedented scope and innovative approach

Some dog-eared pages in first half of the book

cover art by Daniel Corcuera (Nekronikon)

and shows clear signs of it Hebrew and Greek roots

on both sides of the controversy

Condition: Very Good in an Acceptable dust jacket

Pico’s own story of this discovery and the way in which he felt compelled to share it with the world are extraordinary and dramatic

By showing how it was possible for religious insiders to integrate magical studies with their orthodox worldview

In lucid prose

Praxis and development of the patron of death