Author: Briana Lawrence
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999398302
Category : African American lesbians
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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Black, queer, magical girls save the world with the power of friendship and fantastic hair.

Author: Claire Fanger
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271072016
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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In Rewriting Magic, Claire Fanger explores a fourteenth-century text called The Flowers of Heavenly Teaching. Written by a Benedictine monk named John of Morigny, the work all but disappeared from the historical record, and it is only now coming to light again in multiple versions and copies. While John’s book largely comprises an extended set of prayers for gaining knowledge, The Flowers of Heavenly Teaching is unusual among prayer books of its time because it includes a visionary autobiography with intimate information about the book’s inspiration and composition. Through the window of this record, we witness how John reconstructs and reconsecrates a condemned liturgy for knowledge acquisition: the ars notoria of Solomon. John’s work was the subject of intense criticism and public scandal, and his book was burned as heretical in 1323. The trauma of these experiences left its imprint on the book, but in unexpected and sometimes baffling ways. Fanger decodes this imprint even as she relays the narrative of how she learned to understand it. In engaging prose, she explores the twin processes of knowledge acquisition in John’s visionary autobiography and her own work of discovery as she reconstructed the background to his extraordinary book. Fanger’s approach to her subject exemplifies innovative historical inquiry, research, and methodology. Part theology, part historical anthropology, part biblio-memoir, Rewriting Magic relates a story that will have deep implications for the study of medieval life, monasticism, prayer, magic, and religion.

Author: Marta Altés
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447269942
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Meet the boy who can't stop creating art! He loves colours, shapes, textures and EVERYTHING inspires him: his socks, the contents of the fridge, even his cat gets a new coat (of paint!). But there's just one problem: his mum isn't quite so enthusiastic. In fact, she seems a little cross! But this boy has a plan to make his mum smile. He's about to create his finest piece yet and on a very grand scale . . . Funny, irreverent and perfect for creative children and adults, I Am An Artist by Marta Altés is a sharp, silly, fabulous book which shows that art is EVERYWHERE!

Author: Maria Robins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780473381929
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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It's easy to create a better life when we know the secret of how to tap into the magical power of the words I AM. We are all the creators of our life's story yet often we are telling ourselves the wrong story without even realizing we are doing so. This little rhyming book shows you exactly how you can harness your thoughts and energy in a positive, loving and productive way in order to manifest your best and happiest life. For ages 3 - 103. If I believe and you believe....imagine what we could achieve! (Each sale of this book supports Leukaemia Research)

Author: Michael Labahn
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 056703075X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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This collection explores the importance of magic within Early Christianity

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Category : Employee fringe benefits
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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Author: José Manuel García Valverde
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004468951
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 782

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The first full modern English version of Del Río’s treatise, unrivalled in its breadth, detail, and scholarship, on the occult sciences as they were understood, experienced, and combatted at the end of the sixteenth century.

Author: Frank Klaassen
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271061758
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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In this original, provocative, well-reasoned, and thoroughly documented book, Frank Klaassen proposes that two principal genres of illicit learned magic occur in late medieval manuscripts: image magic, which could be interpreted and justified in scholastic terms, and ritual magic (in its extreme form, overt necromancy), which could not. Image magic tended to be recopied faithfully; ritual magic tended to be adapted and reworked. These two forms of magic did not usually become intermingled in the manuscripts, but were presented separately. While image magic was often copied in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, The Transformations of Magic demonstrates that interest in it as an independent genre declined precipitously around 1500. Instead, what persisted was the other, more problematic form of magic: ritual magic. Klaassen shows that texts of medieval ritual magic were cherished in the sixteenth century, and writers of new magical treatises, such as Agrippa von Nettesheim and John Dee, were far more deeply indebted to medieval tradition—and specifically to the medieval tradition of ritual magic—than previous scholars have thought them to be.

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Category : Wages
Languages : en
Pages : 882

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Author: Anne Sibley O'Brien
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN: 1430130164
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Three children from other countries (Somalia, Spain, and Korea) struggle to adjust to their new home and school in the United States.