Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century by Richard Kieckhefer (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998) Paperback

Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century by Richard Kieckhefer (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998) PaperbackRichard Kieckhefer. Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century, Magic in History Series. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016. Paperback edition. 384 pages. Condition: New Description from the publisher: Preserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich is a manuscript that few scholars have noticed and that no one in modern times has treated with the seriousness it deserves. Forbidden Rites consists

with particular emphasis on the witch-cult

this expanded edition includes a new preface from Brown

as a love letter to critic Jean Paulhan

Paul Leppin (1878-1945) ‘the German-Bohemian Baudelaire’ and Joseph Roth (1894-1939) author of The Radetzky March

It possesses a traditional methodology that confronts and deals directly with the same primal realities faced by our most remote ancestors

Stephanie Elizabeth Churms

Some very light foxing on edges

and indeed pastoral theology

it offers a fascinating insight into allegations of witchcraft in the High and Late Middle Ages

Using the stars and planets to divine the future ran counter to the orthodox Christian notion that human beings have free will

Alan Corbett’s Ghost of Shandon – Rosemary Pardoe

Medieval Religion and its Anxieties: History and Mystery in the Other Middle Ages