{"product_id":"making-magic-in-elizabethan-england-frank-klaassen-9780271083698","title":"Making Magic in Elizabethan England: Two Early Modern Vernacular Books of Magic","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume presents editions of two fascinating anonymous and untitled manuscripts of magic produced in Elizabethan England: the Antiphoner Notebook and the Boxgrove Manual. Frank Klaassen uses these texts, which he argues are representative of the overwhelming majority of magical practitioners, to explain how magic changed during this period and why these developments were crucial to the formation of modern magic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eBoxgrove Manual is a work of learned ritual magic that synthesizes material from Henry Cornelius Agrippa, the\u003ci\u003e Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHeptameron\u003c\/i\u003e, and various medieval conjuring works. The Antiphoner Notebook concerns the common magic of treasure hunting, healing, and protection, blending medieval conjuring and charm literature with materials drawn from Reginald Scot's famous anti-magic work, \u003ci\u003eDiscoverie of Witchcraft\u003c\/i\u003e. Klaassen painstakingly traces how the scribes who created these two manuscripts adapted and transformed their original sources. In so doing, he demonstrates the varied and subtle ways in which the Renaissance, the Reformation, new currents in science, the birth of printing, and vernacularization changed the practice of magic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIlluminating the processes by which two sixteenth-century English scribes went about making a book of magic, this volume provides insight into the wider intellectual culture surrounding the practice of magic in the early modern period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frank Klaassen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271083697\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271083698\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.50d","brand":"Frank Klaassen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43987599589631,"sku":"9780271083698","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_af3fa4e4-b81d-45f0-ab7c-33cd994c4fad.jpg?v=1683289948","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/making-magic-in-elizabethan-england-frank-klaassen-9780271083698","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}