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An authoritative collection bringing together a wide range of topics on science, magic, and medieval constructions of the natural world.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements “Introduction,” by Carolina Escobar-Vargas Chapter 1: “Rhythms of the (Super)Natural World: Timing Instructions in Early Medieval Medical Recipes,” by Claire Burridge Chapter 2: “Time and Tide: The Creation of a Sea Travel Network in the Severn Region in the Early Middle Ages,” by Caroline Bourne Chapter 3: “Astral Forces and Arthurian Dragons in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britanniae,” by Humma Mouzam Chapter 4: “Natural and Non-Natural: Weather, Seasons, and Place in the Medicine of Constantine of Africa,” by Anne Jeavons Chapter 5: “Matthew Paris, William of Conches, and the Use of Diagrams to Observe the World,” by Judith Collard Chapter 6: “Astrology: Science or Divination? The Example of Astro-Meteorology,” by Anne Lawrence-Mathers Chapter 7: “Magic and Science in the Middle Ages: The Building of the Boundaries between Natural Magic and Necromancy, ca. 1230–ca. 1310,” by Sebastià Giralt Chapter 8: “Witchcraft and Weather: The Problem of Magical Control of the Weather,” by Carolina Escobar-Vargas Chapter 9: “The Boundaries of Magic and Medicine in Medieval Theology,” by Victoria Burns-Price Chapter 10: “Between Natural and Demonic? Onomantic Divination in the Later Middle Ages,” by Joanne Edge Chapter 11: “Late-Medieval Brontologies: Popular Superstition or Astrological Medical Guide?,” by Janet Walls Chapter 12: “Wonder and Wonder Working in Middle English Romance: The Prose Merlin,” by Victoria Flood Chapter 13: “Alchemical Poetry, Alchemical Practice,” by Zachary Matus Chapter 14: “Encountering the Wonder in Nature: The Science of the Sacred in the Early-Modern Construction of the Natural World,” by Helen Parish Index

About the Author :
Escobar-Vargas Carolina : Carolina Escobar-Vargas is the current Vice-Dean for Academic Affairs at the Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y Económicas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Medellin) and former head of the Department of History in the above faculty. Lawrence-Mathers Anne : Anne Lawrence-Mathers is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Reading, and the author of The True History of Merlin the Magician and Medieval Meteorology.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781802702019
  • Publisher: ARC Humanities Press
  • Publisher Imprint: ARC Humanities Press
  • Edition: Digital original
  • No of Pages: 252
  • ISBN-10: 1802702016
  • Publisher Date: 31 Jul 2024
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Borderlines


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