Martin Del Rio : Investigations into Magic (Social and Cultural Values in Early Modern Europe)

Maxwell-Stuart, Peter

Manchester University Press（2009/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 304 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780719080531
• DDC分類 133.43

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2000. This is the first English translation of one of the most important, interesting and comprehensive discussions of the occult sciences ever published.

Full Description

This is the first English translation of one of the most important, interesting and comprehensive discussions of the occult sciences ever published. Investigations into magic deals not only with magic in all its forms, from the manipulation of angelic and demonic powers to straightforward conjuring and illusion, but also with witchcraft, alchemy, astrology, divination, prophecy, and possession by evil spirits. In addition, Del Rio gives judges and confessors practical advice on the most effective ways of dealing with people who are accused of practising magic, and enlivens his whole discussion with anecdotes drawn from a remarkable range of sources, including his own experience. Nothing so panoramic had ever appeared before, and for the next one hundred and fifty years Investigations into magic was the indispensable reference work on the subject.

Contents

Introduction
Prologue, explaining why this treatise has been difficult to write, but why it was necessary to do so.
Book 1: Magic in general, and Natural and Artificial Magic in Particular.
Book 2: Magic involving Evil Spirits
Book 3: Harmful Magic and Superstition
Book 4: Divination
Book 5: The Duty of Judges in dealing with Workers of Harmful Magic; or, The Judicial Process in Relation to the Crime of Magic.
Book 6: The Duty of a Confessor