As Sophie Page demonstrates in Magic in the Cloister, the thrill is not limited to. .

As Sophie Page demonstrates in Magic in the Cloister, the thrill is not limited to a summer spent in a scrupulously maintained Fachbibliothek at a university institute, but can also be won through a more constructed visit to a library in the distant past. Page contextualizes licit and illicit forms of magic and the reasons for their classification in the medieval mind, focusing upon magical practice in the monastery. With other books in the Magic and History series, reading can be a bit dry in places since these are academic volumes ( don't expect the author to translate books with Latin titles into English for us poor slobs who don't know Latin ).

Sophie Page focusses on a collection of more than 30 magic texts which were donated to the library of the Benedictine monastery of St Augustine’s of Canterbury during the late 13th and early 14th centuries. Not all of these manuscripts still survive, but the collection can be reconstructed from a late 15th-century catalogue of the library which is now in Trinity College Dublin.

Kathleen Kamerick, Sophie Page, medieval magic, Christian magic, Magic in History, Abbey of St. Augustine . In Chapter 4 Page focuses on image magic, deftly examining its various strains in popular and learned traditions. Augustine, monastic magic. Magic in the Cloister: Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe. University Park, Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press, 2013. Writings on image magic comprised a distinctive genre among the magical works in St. Augustine’s library, with sixteen separate texts and many more copies and excerpts.

Magic in the Cloister book . Dr Sophie Page joined UCL History as a permanent lecturer in 2002 after studying at the Warburg Institute, UCL and Cambridge. Sophie works in the area of European medieval magic and astrology, especially in relation to orthodox religion, natural philosophy, medicine, and cosmology. Sophie's most recent book, Magic in the Cloister: Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe, was published in October 2013.

Magic in the Cloister: Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches . Magic in the Cloister - Sophie Page. The Magic in History series explores the role magic and the occult have played in European culture, religion, science, and politics

Magic in the Cloister: Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe. The magic in history series. The Magic in History series explores the role magic and the occult have played in European culture, religion, science, and politics. Titles in the series bring the resources of cultural, literary, and social history to bear on the history of the magic arts, and they contribute to an understanding of why the theory and practice of magic have elicited fascination at every level of European society.

In Magic in the Cloister, Sophie Page uses this collection to explore the gradual shift toward more positive . 4 Image Magic: Harnessing Power in the Harmonious Universe. 5 The Liber de essentia spirituum: Magic, Revelation, and Fellowship with Spirits

In Magic in the Cloister, Sophie Page uses this collection to explore the gradual shift toward more positive attitudes to magical texts and ideas in medieval Europe. She examines what attracted monks to magic texts, works, and how they combined magic with their intellectual interests and monastic life. 5 The Liber de essentia spirituum: Magic, Revelation, and Fellowship with Spirits. 6 The Ars notoria and Its Monastic Audience.

In Magic in the Cloister, Sophie Page uses this collection to explore the gradual shift toward more positive attitudes to magical texts and ideas in medieval Europe

In Magic in the Cloister, Sophie Page uses this collection to explore the gradual shift toward more positive attitudes to magical texts and ideas in medieval Europe. She examines what attracted monks to magic texts, in spite of the dangers involved in studying condemned works, and how the monks combined magic with their intellectual interests and monastic life

Magic in the Cloister is the substantially revised dissertation submitted by Page for her doctorate at the Warburg Institute in 2000.

Magic in the Cloister is the substantially revised dissertation submitted by Page for her doctorate at the Warburg Institute in 2000. The familiarity that comes from such a long association enriches the analysis.

University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013 . Its subtitle goes further, bringing together the apparently irreconcilable categories of monastic piety and illicit interests in the occult. Magic in the Cloister draws upon expertise in late-medieval magic and the study of magic at St. Augustine’s abbey, Canterbury, in particular, for which Sophie Page is well known. The author’s depth of knowledge is apparent throughout the book; yet there is also a great deal here for a nonexpert reader.

ISO 690. Weill-Parot Nicolas, Sophie Page, Magic in the Cloister. University Park (PA), The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013, 232 p. ( Magic in History ) , Médiévales, 2016/1 (No 70), p. 274-277. Pious Motives, Illicit Interests and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe. MLA. Weill-Parot, Nicolas. Sophie Page, Magic in the Cloister.