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Between the age of St. Augustine and the sixteenth century reformations magic continued to be both a matter of popular practice and of learned inquiry. This volume deals with its use in such contexts as healing and divination and as an aspect of the knowledge of nature's occult virtues and secrets.
To its contemporaries, the First Crusade was a journey and the men who took part in it pilgrims. Only later were those participants dubbed Crusaders. In this greatly expanded second edition to his classic work, Edward Peters brings together the essential Christian, Hebrew, and Arabic Sources that document the events of 1095-1099.
"Helps to place our understanding of medieval witchcraft into a broader context... Sheds light on the various genres of literature in which magic was discussed."-Speculum
"In the restrained prose of Torture lies a passionate message about the intentional violation of the bodies of human beings, in our time and in the past."-New York Times
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