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Conjuring spirits : texts and traditions of medieval ritual magic / edited by Claire Fanger.

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University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998.

Magic -- History.

Magic -- Manuscripts.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

0271018623 (alk. paper)

9780271018621 (alk. paper)

0271025174 (pbk. : alk. paper)

9780271025179 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Magic in history

xviii, 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Medieval ritual magic : what it is and why we need to know more about it -- [Part one : contexts, genres, images] -- English manuscripts of magic, 1300-1500 : a preliminary survey / Frank Klaassen -- The Book of angels, rings, characters and images of the planets attributed to Osbern Bokenham / Juris G. Lidaka -- Safe magic and invisible writing in the Secretum philosophorum / John B. Friedman -- A fragmentary German divination device : medieval analogues and pseudo-Lullian tradition / Elizabeth I. Wade -- Visual art in two manuscripts of the Ars notoria / Michael Camille -- [Part two : angelic knowledge : the Sworn book and the Book of visions] -- A thirteenth-century ritual to attain the beatific vision from the Sworn book of Honorius of Thebes / Robert Mathiesen -- John the Monk's Book of visions of the Blessed and Undefiled Virgin Mary, Mother of God : two versions of a newly discovered ritual magic text / Nicholas Watson -- Plundering the Egyptian treasure : John the Monk's Book of visions and its relation to the Ars notoria of Solomon / Claire Fanger -- The devil's contemplatives : the Liber Iuratus, the Liber visionum and the Christian appropriation of Jewish occultism / Richard Kïeckhefer.

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