THE ALLURE OF LITERATURE: A HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF MEDIEVAL SCHOLARLY MAGIC AND TEXTS
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Supernatural, Ancient, Medieval Knowledge, The Enchanted Tome of Literature and Mysteries.Abstract
This study adds to the expanding corpus of literature that examines religion's "critical categories," offering a new angle on the subject: Eliciting precise understandings of words while simultaneously settling heated disagreements over their acceptable usage is a difficulty for academics researching ideas that are both flexible and multifunctional. Instead of attempting to reduce the semantic complexity of these categories in religious studies by only using "definitions," the essay suggests that researchers should recognize the polysemantic nature of these categories as important.
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Mandosio, Jean-Marc. 2019. “Peter of Zealand.” In The Routledge History of Medieval Magic, edited by Sophie Page and Catherine Rider, 268–83. London: Routledge.
Gehr, Damaris. 2019. “Beringarius Ganellus and the Summa Sacre Magice. Magic as the Promotion of God’s Kingship.” In The Routledge History of Medieval Magic, edited by Sophie Page and Catherine Rider, 237–53. London: Routledge.
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