Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century

by Richard Kieckhefer

Book Overview

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 of an edition of this medieval Latin text with a full commentary, including detailed analysis of the text and its contents, discussion of the historical context, translation of representative sections of the text, and comparison with other necromantic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271017511
• ISBN13: 9780271017518
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"