Output details
30 - History
University of Hertfordshire
Book title
Grimoires : A History of Magic Books
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
-
Publisher of book
OUP
ISBN of book
9780199204519
Year of publication
2009
URL
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Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
Yes
Double-weighted statement
This 368-page monograph is the first comprehensive study of the development of books of magic from the advent of writing to the rise of the Internet. It is as much a cultural history of the book as a history of magic. Drawing upon non-digitised manuscript archives and rare printed materials (many of which are unavailable in any UK library) in five different languages (French, German, Italian, Spanish and Danish/Norwegian), it focusses on the development of grimoires in Europe and the Near East, and how through colonisation, slavery, commerce and religion European grimoires were absorbed into cultures across the globe.
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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