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  • Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worldsby Daniel Ogden

    Oxford University Press, USA 2002; US$ 40.00

    In a culture where the supernatural possessed an immediacy now strange to us, magic was of great importance both in the literary and mythic tradition and in ritual practice. Recently, ancient magic has hit a high in popularity, both as an area of scholarly inquiry and as one of general, popular interest. In Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds Daniel Ogden presents three hundred texts in new translations, along with brief but explicit commentaries. This is the first book in the field to unite extensive selections from both literary and documentary sources. Alongside descriptions of sorcerers, witches, and ghosts in the works of ancient writers, it reproduces curse tablets, spells from ancient magical recipe books, and... more...

  • Spirituality and the Occultby Brian Gibbons

    Routledge 2000; US$ 39.95

    Argues against the view that occult spiritualities are marginal to Western culture. Shows that the influence of the esoteric tradition is neglected and that much of what we take to be 'modern' derives, at least in part, from this. more...

  • A Survey of the Occultby Julian Franklyn

    Electric Book Company 2000; US$ 4.95

    Franklyn's interest in the occult led him to produce two works on the subject. A Survey of the Occult was published in 1935. more...

  • Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Ageby Frances Yates

    Routledge 2001; US$ 19.95

    Stunningly written and highly engaging, Yates' masterpiece is a must-read for anyone interested in the occult tradition. more...

  • Rosicrucian Enlightenmentby Frances Yates

    Routledge 2001; US$ 19.95

    A history of the role that the occult has played in the formation of modern science and medicine, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment has had a tremendous impact on our understanding of the western esoteric tradition. more...

  • The Occult Laboratoryby Michael Hunter

    Boydell & Brewer 2001; US$ 63.75

    The uncanny ability of certain individuals to foresee future events had long been regarded as a characteristic of the Scottish Highlands, but in the late seventeenth century interest in the phenomenon came to a head, stimulated by English scientific and philosophical curiosity about magic, particularly second sight. The natural philosopher Robert Boyle and other English savants investigated these Highland beliefs; they found the region a kind of laboratory, strange yet accessible, where data about unusual beliefs could be collected and theories tested. more...

  • Of Occult Philosophy or of Magical Ceremoniesby Henry Cornelius Agrippa

    NuVision Publications, LLC 2003; US$ 3.99

    This short book has beem composed as it were a Compliment and Key to the other books of Occult Philosophy, and all Magical Operations. We will give unto thee the documents of Holy and Undefiled Verity, and Inexpugnable and Unresisable Magical Discipline, and Most Pleasant and Delectable Experiments of the Sacred Deities. more...

  • Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880-1920by Pamela Thurschwell; Gillian Beer

    Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 32.00

    Thurschwell examines the intersection of literary culture, the occult and new technology at the fin-de-siècle. Making unexpected connections between, for instance, speaking on the telephone and speaking to the dead, she examines how psychical research is reflected in the work of Henry James, George du Maurier and Oscar Wilde among others. more...

  • Gender at Stakeby Lara Apps

    Manchester University Press 2003; US$ 64.95

    This study of male witches addresses incidents of witch-hunting in Britain and Europe, using feminist categories of gender analysis to critique the feminist agenda that mars many studies. It advances a more balanced and complex view of witch-hunting and ideas about witches in their gendered forms. more...

  • The language of demons and angelsby I. Lehrich

    BRILL 2003; US$ 112.00

    This work is a modern study of Agrippa's occult philosophy as a coherent part of his intellectual work. It challenges traditional interpretations of Agrippa as an intellectual dilettante, and uses modern theory and philosophy o elucidate the intricacies of his thought. more...