Invoking Angels

Claire Fanger is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University. She is the editor of Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic (Penn State, 1998).

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Theurgy, Magic, and MysticismClaire FangerI. Texts of the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries1Magic, Theurgy, and Spirituality in the Medieval Ritual of the Ars notoriaJulien Véronèse (English translation by Claire Fanger)2Uplifting Souls: The Liber de essentia spirituum and the Liber RazielisSophie Page3The Liber iuratus Honorii and the Christian Reception of Angel MagicKatelyn Mesler4Honorius and the Sigil of God: The Liber iuratus in Berengario Ganell’s Summa sacre magiceJan R. Veenstra5Covenant and the Divine Name: Revisiting the Liber iuratus and John of Morigny’s Liber florum Claire FangerII. Late Fourteenth- Through Sixteenth-Century Texts6Antonio da Montolmo’s De occultis et manifestis or Liber intelligentiarum: An Annotated Critical Edition with English Translation and IntroductionNicolas Weill-Parot (in collaboration with Julien Véronèse)7Between the March of Ancona and Florence: Jewish Magic and a Christian TextHarvey J. Hames8Language, Secrecy, and the Mysteries of Law: Theurgy and the Christian Kabbalah of Johannes Reuchlin Elliot R. Wolfson9Ritual Invocation and Early Modern Science: The Skrying Experiments of Humphrey GilbertFrank KlaassenSelected BibliographyIndex

“Invoking Angels makes an important contribution to the growing scholarly literature on medieval and early modern ritual magic.”—Christopher Lehrich, Boston University