Bøger af Frank (Associate Professor Klaassen

Examines legal documents and magic texts relevant to two cases where authorities in Tudor England confronted practicing magicians. Explores how magicians thought about the world, where they got their ideas, and how their magic was supposed to work.

Explores two principal genres of illicit learned magic in late medieval manuscripts: image magic, which could be interpreted and justified in scholastic terms, and ritual magic, which could not.