TY  - BOOK
AU  - Page,Sophie
TI  - Magic in the cloister: pious motives, illicit interests, and occult approaches to the medieval universe 
T2  - The magic in history series
SN  - 9780271060965
AV  - BF1593 .M345 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - University Park, Pennsylvania
PB  - The Pennsylvania State University Press
KW  - St. Augustine's Abbey (Canterbury, England)
KW  - History
KW  - Magic
KW  - Manuscripts
KW  - Manuscripts, Medieval
KW  - England
KW  - Canterbury
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Monks and their magic texts at St. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury --; Natural magic : the basilisk and the lodestone --; The liber vaccae : magical uses of monstrous creations --; Image magic : harnessing power in the harmonious universe --; The liber de essentia spirituum : magic, revelation, and fellowship with spirits --; The ars notoria and its monastic audience --; Epilogue: John Dee, St. Augustine's manuscripts, and Renaissance magic; 2; b
N2  - "Utilizes the collection of magic texts from the late Middle Ages at St. Augustine's, Canterbury, to examine the orthodoxy of magical approaches to the medieval universe and to show how it was possible to combine magical studies with a monastic vocation"--Provided by publisher
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ER  -