Ibn Wahshiyya and Magic
Ibn Wahshiyya and Magic Anaquel de Estudios Árabes X (1999) HÁMEEM-ANTTILA, JAAKKO Magic has always had a role to play in Islamie society’. Its…
Anglo-Saxon Magico-Medicine
A mass of folly and credulity?
Seduction, Abandonment, and Sorcery in Middle English Lyrics
My purpose in writing this article is to expose a different view of romantic relationships that exist in medieval literature, a view that is in opposition to courtly love.
Knights in Love: Don Quixote and Tirant lo Blanc
Knights in Love: Don Quixote and Tirant lo Blanc Mira, Joan Francesc Paper given at Readings in Catalan fiction Conference (2006) Abstract The discussion…
LABELING AND OPPRESSION: WITCHCRAFT IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE
LABELING AND OPPRESSION: WITCHCRAFT IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE Campbell, Mary Ann (Washington University) Mid-American Review of Sociology, V ol. III, No.2 Abstract The attempt here…
The Meanings of Magic
The Meanings of Magic Bailey, Michael D. Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, Volume 1, Number 1, Summer (2006) Abstract The establishment of a new…
“‘The king o fairy with his rout’: Fairy Magic in the Literature of Late Medieval Britain” by Hannah Priest
“‘The king o fairy with his rout’: Fairy Magic in the Literature of Late Medieval Britain” Priest, Hannah Hortulus, Vol. 4, No. 1, (2008)…
The Fathers of the Church and the Evil Eye
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how difficult even the most highly educated and sophisticated Christians of the late fourth and early fifth centuries found it to rid themselves of the idea that envy lends a malign power to men’s eyes.
Latin Charms of Medieval England: Verbal Healing in a Christian Oral Tradition
In what follows I shall address four elementary questions: (1) What are the near-allied genres? In other words, in what contexts do charms appear in the manuscripts? (2) In what sense can the genre be described as oral traditional? (3) What are the forms of language in which the genre coheres? (4) How, on what occasion, by whom, and for whom are charms performed, and how do they function within these situations?