Magical Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe

Magical Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe The Clandestine Trade In Illegal Book Collections

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Magical Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe

The Clandestine Trade In Illegal Book Collections

Daniel Bellingradt | Bernd-Christian Otto

Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / General

Uses an eighteenth century German case-study to examine the clandestine, and sometimes illegal, practices of the early modern European book trade

Addresses questions of censorship regimes and efficiency, of the textual-ritual tradition and eventual canon formations of ‘Western learned magic’, and of the status and use of handwritten books in an alleged ‘age of print’

Provides a methodological pathway towards an interdisciplinary, integrative, and thus more comprehensive analysis of books of ‘learned magic’ in and beyond early modern times

Daniel Bellingradt is Professor of Book Studies at Erlangen-Nuremberg University, Germany, co-editor of the German Yearbook for the History of Communications, and co-editor of Books in Motion in Early Modern Europe. Beyond Production, Circulation and Consumption (2017).

Bernd-Christian Otto is postdoctoral researcher at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt, Germany. His book publications include Magie. Rezeptions- und diskursgeschichtliche Analysen von der Antike bis zur Neuzeit (2011), and, as co-editor, Defining Magic: A Reader (2013), and History and Religion: Narrating a Religious Past (2015).


Publication Date: 11 September 2017
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-13: 9783319595245
Format: Hardback
Page Count: 166

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