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Disenchanting Albert the Great

The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Magician

David J. Collins, S. J.

Was: $54.95 Now: $32.97 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09744-2

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224 pages
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7 b&w illustrations
2024

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The Child Witches of Olague

Lu Ann Homza

Was: $69.95 Now: $41.97 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09880-7

Was: $21.95 Now: $13.17 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09749-7

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144 pages
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1 map
2024

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Speculum Lapidum

A Renaissance Treatise on the Healing Properties of Gemstones

Camillo Leonardi, and Translated with an introduction by Liliana Leopardi

Was: $39.95 Now: $23.97 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09539-4

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240 pages
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5 b&w illustrations
2023

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Sorcery or Science?

Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts

Ariela Marcus-Sells

Was: $119.95 Now: $71.97 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09229-4

Was: $34.95 Now: $20.97 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09230-0

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232 pages
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4 b&w illustrations/1 map
2022

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Kabbalah and Sex Magic

A Mythical-Ritual Genealogy

Marla Segol

Was: $99.95 Now: $59.97 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08960-7

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ISBN: 978-0-271-08961-4

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220 pages
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2021

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The Magic of Rogues

Necromancers in Early Tudor England

Frank Klaassen and Sharon Hubbs Wright

Was: $22.95 Now: $13.77 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08929-4

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176 pages
5.5" × 8.5"
9 b&w illustrations
2021

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Everyday Magicians

Legal Records and Magic Manuscripts from Tudor England

Sharon Hubbs Wright and Frank Klaassen

Was: $22.95 Now: $13.77 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-09393-2

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164 pages
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16 b&w illustrations
2022

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Forbidden Rites

A Necromancer’s Manual of the Fifteenth Century

Richard Kieckhefer

Was: $36.95 Now: $22.17 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-01751-8

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392 pages
6.125" × 9.25"
1998

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Spiritual and Demonic Magic

From Ficino to Campanella

D.P. Walker

Was: $40.95 Now: $24.57 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-02045-7

256 pages
6" × 9"
2000
Co-published with Sutton Publishing Ltd.

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Picatrix

A Medieval Treatise on Astral Magic

Translated with an introduction by Dan Attrell and David Porreca

Was: $39.95 Now: $23.97 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08212-7

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384 pages
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31 b&w illustrations
2019

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The Bathhouse at Midnight

An Historical Survey of Magic and Divination in Russia

W. F. Ryan

Was: $47.95 Now: $28.77 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-01967-3

512 pages
6" × 9"
1999

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Conjuring Spirits

Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic

Edited by Claire Fanger

Was: $37.95 Now: $22.77 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-02517-9

308 pages
6.14" × 9.21"
26 b&w illustrations
1998

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Battling Demons

Witchcraft, Heresy, and Reform in the Late Middle Ages

Michael D. Bailey

Was: $40.95 Now: $24.57 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-02226-0

216 pages
6" × 9"
3 b&w illustrations
2003

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Strange Revelations

Magic, Poison, and Sacrilege in Louis XIV's France

Lynn Wood Mollenauer

Was: $99.95 Now: $59.97 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-02915-3

Was: $34.95 Now: $20.97 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-02916-0

224 pages
6" × 9"
6 b&w illustrations
2006

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Binding Words

Textual Amulets in the Middle Ages

Don C. Skemer

Was: $111.95 Now: $67.17 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-02722-7

Was: $50.95 Now: $30.57 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-02723-4

336 pages
6.125" × 9.25"
12 b&w illustrations
2006

Magic in History

Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World

Edited by Scott Noegel, Joel Walker, and Brannon Wheeler

Was: $38.95 Now: $23.37 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-02258-1

272 pages
6.125" × 9.25"
13 b&w illustrations/1 map
2003

Magic in History

Ritual Magic

Elizabeth M. Butler

Was: $40.95 Now: $24.57 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-01846-1

336 pages
6" × 9"
1999

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Icons of Power

Ritual Practices in Late Antiquity

Naomi Janowitz

Was: $78.95 Now: $47.37 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-02147-8

Was: $34.95 Now: $20.97 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-05837-5

192 pages
6" × 9"
2002

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Unlocked Books

Manuscripts of Learned Magic in the Medieval Libraries of Central Europe

Benedek Láng

Was: $47.95 Now: $28.77 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-03378-5

352 pages
6" × 9"
30 b&w illustrations
2008

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Invoking Angels

Theurgic Ideas and Practices, Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries

Edited by Claire Fanger

Was: $100.95 Now: $60.57 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-05142-0

Was: $45.95 Now: $27.57 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-05143-7

408 pages
6" × 9"
5 b&w illustrations
2012

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Hazards of the Dark Arts

Advice for Medieval Princes on Witchcraft and Magic

Translated by Richard Kieckhefer

Was: $24.95 Now: $14.97 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-07840-3

168 pages
5.5" × 8.5"
7 b&w illustrations
2017

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The Transformations of Magic

Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance

Frank Klaassen

Was: $78.95 Now: $47.37 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-05626-5

Was: $39.95 Now: $23.97 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-05627-2

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280 pages
6" × 9"
2013

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The Arras Witch Treatises

Johannes Tinctor's Invectives contre la secte de vauderie and the Recollectio casus, status et condicionis Valdensium ydolatrarum by the Anonymous of Arras (1460)

Edited and translated by Andrew Colin Gow, Robert B. Desjardins, and François V. Pageau

Was: $26.95 Now: $16.17 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-07128-2

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168 pages
5.5" × 8.5"
1 map
2016

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Origins of the Witches’ Sabbath

Michael D. Bailey

Was: $21.95 Now: $13.17 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08910-2

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136 pages
5.5" × 8.5"
1 map
2021

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Magic in the Cloister

Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe

Sophie Page

Was: $42.95 Now: $23.97 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-06034-7

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248 pages
6" × 9"
6 b&w illustrations
2013

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Alchemical Belief

Occultism in the Religious Culture of Early Modern England

Bruce Janacek

Was: $88.95 Now: $53.37 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-05013-3

Was: $45.95 Now: $27.57 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-05014-0

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240 pages
6" × 9"
6 b&w illustrations
2011

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Rewriting Magic

An Exegesis of the Visionary Autobiography of a Fourteenth-Century French Monk

Claire Fanger

Was: $85.95 Now: $51.57 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-06650-9

Was: $33.95 Now: $20.37 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-06651-6

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232 pages
6.125" × 9.25"
4 b&w illustrations
2015

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The Long Life of Magical Objects

A Study in the Solomonic Tradition

Allegra Iafrate

Was: $101.95 Now: $61.17 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08366-7

Was: $39.95 Now: $23.97 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08367-4

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248 pages
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19 b&w illustrations
2019

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The Fortunes of Faust

Elizabeth M. Butler

Was: $34.95 Now: $20.97 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-03011-1

384 pages
6" × 9"
1999
Co-published with Sutton Publishing Ltd.

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Magic in the Modern World

Strategies of Repression and Legitimization

Edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers

Was: $80.95 Now: $48.57 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-07777-2

Was: $39.95 Now: $23.97 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-07778-9

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216 pages
6.125" × 9.25"
2017

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Making Magic in Elizabethan England

Two Early Modern Vernacular Books of Magic

Edited by Frank Klaassen

Was: $96.95 Now: $58.17 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08368-1

Was: $29.95 Now: $17.97 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08369-8

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160 pages
6.125" × 9.25"
66 b&w illustrations
2019

Magic in History

Medicine, Religion, and Magic in Early Stuart England

Richard Napier's Medical Practice

Ofer Hadass

Was: $96.95 Now: $58.17 | Hardcover Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08018-5

Was: $39.95 Now: $23.97 | Paperback Edition
ISBN: 978-0-271-08019-2

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232 pages
6.125" × 9.25"
10 b&w illustrations
2018

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