Most Recent Articles from Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft

• Witch-crafting in Roman literature and art: new thoughts on an old image.(Critical essay) 

  Historians intrigued by the relationship between representations and realia of Greco-Roman women and witchcraft are faced with a question that is...

  12/22/08 by Pollard, Elizabeth Ann · More from publication

• To condemn a king: the dream of Bernat Metge and King Joan's ties with the occult.(Critical essay) 

  On May 19, 1396, while in hot pursuit of a stag in the woods that bordered the city of Gerona, the count-king of the Crown of Aragon, Joan I,...

  12/22/08 by Ryan, Michael A. · More from publication

• Astral magic in the Renaissance: gems, poetry, and patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici.(Critical essay) 

  LORENZO'S RING Florentine coppersmith Bartolomeo Masi recorded in his diary in April 1492 that as Lorenzo de' Medici lay dying, a violent...

  12/22/08 by Aakhus, Patricia · More from publication

• Shaping superstition in late medieval England.(Report) 

  Superstition occupied an ambiguous place in late medieval England. While elsewhere in fifteenth-century Europe the clergy increasingly reviled...

  06/22/08 by Kamerick, Kathleen · More from publication

• False, lying Spirits and Angels of Light ambiguous mediation in Dr Rudd's seventeenth-century treatise on angel magic.(Report) 

  INTRODUCTION "His only (but great and dreadful) error [was], that he mistook false lying Spirits for Angels of Light, the Divel of Hell ......

  06/22/08 by Asprem, Egil · More from publication

• Jonathan Barry and Owen Davies, eds. Witchcraft Historiography.(Book review) 

  JONATHAN BARRY and OWEN DAVIES, eds. Witchcraft Historiography. Houndmills, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. x + 248. This important...

  06/22/08 by Bailey, Michael D. · More from publication

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