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Magic and Impotence: Recent Developments in Medieval Historiography
Author(s) -
Rider Catherine
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
history compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.121
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1478-0542
DOI - 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2007.00431.x
Subject(s) - magic (telescope) , historiography , witch , scholarship , middle ages , early modern europe , classics , astrology , medieval history , literature , history , art , ancient history , archaeology , political science , law , astronomy , ecology , physics , biology
There has been a great deal of scholarship on medieval magic published in the last twenty years. This article discusses the author's recent book, Magic and Impotence in the Middle Ages , and surveys how it fits into other recent research on medieval magic. This recent research has taken three directions in particular: research on the medieval origins of the early modern witch‐hunts; on the contents and circulation of magical texts in medieval Europe; and on the various ways in which historians have related magic to other areas of medieval religion and culture.