Summary: “Examines a series of powerful artifacts traditionally associated with King Solomon, largely via extra-canonical textual sources-Solomon’s ring, bottles to contain evil forces, the so-called Solomon’s knot, a shamir, and a flying carpet-and traces their varying cultural resonances”-Provide by publisher. Description: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, | Series: Magic in history | Includes bibliographical references and index. Title: The long life of magical objects : a study in the Solomonic tradition / Allegra Iafrate. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Iafrate, Allegra, 1985– author. T H E P E N N S Y LVA N I A S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S U N I V E R S I T Y PA R K, P E N N S Y LVA N I A
T HE L ONG L IF E OF M A GIC A L OB JE C T S A STU DY I N T H E S O L O M O N IC TRA DITION Volumes include both editions of important texts and significant new research in the field. Titles in the series bring the resources of cultural, literary, and social history to bear on the history of the magic arts, and they contribute to an understanding of why the theory and practice of magic have elicited fascination at every level of European society.
The Magic in History series explores the role magic and the occult have played in European culture, religion, science, and politics. MAKING MAGIC IN ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND Two Early Modern Vernacular Books of Magic STRANGE REVELATIONS Magic, Poison, and Sacrilege in Louis XIV’s France MEDICINE, RELIGION, AND MAGIC IN EARLY STUART ENGLAND Richard Napier’s Medical Practice Ofer Hadass PICATRIX A Medieval Treatise on Astral Magic Dan Attrell and David Porreca PRAYER, MAGIC, AND THE STARS IN THE ANCIENT AND LATE ANTIQUE WORLD Edited by Scott Noegel, Joel Walker, and Brannon Wheeler BINDING WORDS Textual Amulets in the Middle Ages Don C. REWRITING MAGIC An Exegesis of the Visionary Autobiography of a Fourteenth-C entury French Monk Claire Fanger MAGIC IN THE MODERN WORLD Strategies of Repression and Legitimization Edward Bever and Randall Styers ICONS OF POWER Ritual Practices in Late Antiquity Naomi Janowitz BATTLING DEMONS Witchcraἀ, Heresy, and Reform in the Late Middle Ages Michael D. MAGIC IN THE CLOISTER Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe Sophie Page SPIRITUAL AND DEMONIC MAGIC From Ficino to Campanella D. THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF MAGIC Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance Frank Klaassen THE BATHHOUSE AT MIDNIGHT An Historical Survey of Magic and Divination in Russia W. INVOKING ANGELS Theurgic Ideas and Practices, Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries Claire Fanger Butler THE FORTUNES OF FAUST Elizabeth M. UNLOCKED BOOKS Manuscripts of Learned Magic in the Medieval Libraries of Central Europe Benedek LángĬONJURING SPIRITS Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic Edited by Claire FangerĪLCHEMICAL BELIEF Occultism in the Religious Culture of Early Modern England Bruce Janacek
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T H E L O N G L IF E O F M A GIC A L O B J E C T SįORBIDDEN RITES A Necromancer’s Manual of the Fiἀeenth Century Richard Kieckhefer