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Week 1 - Introduction: General Themes and Problems (17 items)
Required Reading (4 items)
The natural and the supernatural in the Middle Ages - Robert Bartlett, 2008Book | Ch. 1 ‘Boundaries of the Supernatural’
Magic in the Middle Ages - Richard Kieckhefer, 1989Book | “Introduction: Magic as a crossroads”, pp. 1-18.
The magician, the witch and the law - Edward Peters, 1978Book | Read: “The transformations of the magus”, pp. 1-20.
Science and the medieval church - David LindbergChapter
Further Reading (13 items)
The metamorphosis of magic from late antiquity to the early modern period - Jan N.Bremmer, Jan R. Veenstra, 2002
Book
The Doctor Was Surprised; or, How to Diagnose a Miracle - Jacalyn. Duffin, 2007Article
The uses of supernatural power: the transformation of popular religion in medieval andearly-modern Europe - Gábor Klaniczay, Karen Margolis, 1990
Book
The structure of scientific revolutions - Thomas S. Kuhn, c2012Book
Robert E. Lerner, "The Pope and the Doctor", The Yale Review 78: 1 (Autumn 1988), pp.62-79.
Magic, science and religion: and other essays - Bronislaw Malinowski, 1974Book
Rationality, ritual, and science - Hans H. Perner
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Kuhn's The structure of scientific revolutions: a reader's guide - John Preston, 2008Book
The scientific revolution - Steven Shapin, 1996Book | [Look it up after having read Kuhn’s book; it is helpful to debunk the notion that
there was a scientific revolution in the Early Modern period.] Available in the Library andas an e-book
Magic, religion, science, and secularization - Stephen SharotChapter
Magic, science, religion, and the scope of rationality - Stanley J. Tambiah, 1990Book | Particularly Ch. 1 ‘Magic, science and religion in Western Thought:
anthropology’s intellectual legacy’, pp. 1-15
Religion and the decline of magic: studies in popular beliefs in sixteenth- andseventeenth-century England - Keith Thomas, 1978
Book | Ch. 2 ‘The magic of the medieval Church’, pp. 27-57
A history of magic and experimental science: during the first thirteen centuries of our era -Lynn Thorndike, 1923
Book | 8 vols.
Week 2 - Cosmology (23 items)
Required Reading (3 items)
Cosmology - Edward GrantChapter
The beginnings of Western science: the European scientific tradition in philosophical,religious, and institutional context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450 - David C. Lindberg, 1992
Book | Read: “The medieval cosmos”, pp. 254-285.
Heaven and earth in the Middle Ages: the physical world before Columbus - Rudolf Simek,1996
Book | Read: “The earth as the protected centre of a finite universe and the earth asthe yolk in the cosmic egg”, pp. 6-23, and “The shape of earth”, pp. 24-38.
Further reading (20 items)
The perfection of the universe according to Aquinas: a teleological cosmology - OlivaBlanchette, 1992
Book
Fabula: explorations into the uses of myth in medieval Platonism - Peter Dronke, 1974Book
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Early-Medieval Cosmology, Astronomy, and Mathematics - Bruce S. EastwoodChapter
Cosmology - Edward GrantChapter
Planets, stars, and orbs: the medieval cosmos, 1200-1687 - Edward Grant, 1994Book
Creation and cosmology: A historical and comparative inquiry - E. O. James, 1969Book
Conceptions of cosmos: from myths to the accelerating universe : a history of cosmology -Helge Kragh, 2007
Book
Infinity and continuity in ancient and medieval thought - Norman Kretzmann, 1982Book
Change and Motion - Walter R. LairdChapter
Between Copernicus and Galileo: Christoph Clavius and the collapse of Ptolemaiccosmology - James M. Lattis, 1994
Book
Cosmos: an illustrated history of astronomy and cosmology - J. D. North, 2008Book
Arithmetic, music, and cosmology in a thirteenth-century Boethian source: Parma,Biblioteca Palatina, Parmese 718 - Renata Pieragostini, 2016
Article
Aristotle’s Doctrine of the Unmoved Mover - David Stewart, 1973Article
Time, creation and the continuum: theories in antiquity and the early Middle Ages -Richard Sorabji, 1983
Book
Structures of Time in Medieval Historiography - Gabrielle Spiegel, 2016Article
The Astrological Cosmos and Rhetorical Culture of Giovanni Gioviano Pontano - CharlesTrinkaus
Article
Plato's universe - Gregory Vlastos, 1975Book
On the Impossibility of an Infinite Past - G. J. WhitrowArticle
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Did Thomas Aquinas Defend the Possibility of an Eternally Created World? (The Deaeternitate mundi Revisited) - John F Wippel, 1981
Article
Cosmology in antiquity - M. R Wright, 1995Book | Available in the Library and as an e-book
Week 3 - Astronomy and Astrology (34 items)
Required Reading (4 items)
Astronomy - Olaf PedersonChapter
Astronomy and Astrology - John NorthChapter
Astrology at the English Court in the Later Middle Ages - H. CareyChapter
The natural and the supernatural in the Middle Ages - Robert Bartlett, 2008Book | Ch. 2 ‘“Machine of this world”: ideas of the physical universe’
Further Reading (30 items)
Ancient astrology - Tamsyn Barton, 1994Book | Especially chapters “The triumph of Chrstianity”, pp. 63-84, and “The principles
of astrology”, pp. 85-112.
The perfection of the universe according to Aquinas: a teleological cosmology - OlivaBlanchette, 1992
Book
The Zodiacal Miniature of the Tres Riches Heures of the Duke of Berry: Its Sources andMeaning - Harry Bober, 1948
Article
Astrological Prognostications in MS. 775 of the Pierpont Morgan Library - Curt F. Buhler,1941-05
Article
Astrology - C. BurnettChapter
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Courting disaster: astrology at the English court and university in the later middle ages -Hilary M Carey, 1992
Book
Astrology, science and society: historical essays - Patrick Curry, 1987Book
Early-Medieval Cosmology, Astronomy, and Mathematics - Bruce S. EastwoodChapter
Planets, stars, and orbs: the medieval cosmos, 1200-1687 - Edward Grant, 1994Book
Early Christianity and ancient astrology - Tim Hegedus, c2007Book
Creation and cosmology: A historical and comparative inquiry - E. O. James, 1969Book
Astrometeorology in the Middle Ages - Stuart Jenks, 1983Article
Conceptions of cosmos: from myths to the accelerating universe : a history of cosmology -Helge Kragh, 2007
Book
Between Copernicus and Galileo: Christoph Clavius and the collapse of Ptolemaiccosmology - James M. Lattis, 1994
Book
The pictorial sources of mythological and scientific illustrations in Hrabanus Maurus' Dererum naturis - Diane O. Le Berrurier, 1978
Book
Astrology: from Ancient Babylon to the present - P. G. Maxwell-Stuart, 2012Book | Ch. 9 ‘Medieval Europe c. 1200-c. 1300’, pp. 121-141
Astronomies and cultures in early medieval Europe - Stephen C. McCluskey, 1997Book
Between demonstration and imagination: essays in the history of science and philosophypresented to John D. North - John David North, Lodi Nauta, Arie Johan Vanderjagt, 1999
Book
Horoscopes and history - J. D. North, 1986Book | Quite technical but some useful historical examples
Chaucer's universe - J. D. North, 1988Book
Cosmos: an illustrated history of astronomy and cosmology - J. D. North, 2008Book
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Astrology in medieval manuscripts - Sophie Page, 2002Book
A saving science: capturing the heavens in Carolingian manuscripts - Eric M.Ramírez-Weaver, 2017
Book
Medicine and society in later medieval England - Carole Rawcliffe, 1995Book | Chapter “Astrology and the occult”, pp. 82-104
A kingdom of stargazers: astrology and authority in the late medieval crown of Aragon -Michael A. Ryan, 2011
Book
The Arabic influences on early modern occult philosophy - Liana Saif, 2015Book | Ch. 3, “Textual and intellectual reception of Arabic astral theories in the twelfth
centuries”, pp. 46-69
History, prophecy, and the stars: the Christian astrology of Pierre d'Ailly, 1350-1420 -Laura Ackerman Smoller, c1994
Book
The devil, heresy, and witchcraft in the Middle Ages: essays in honor of Jeffrey B. Russell -Alberto Ferreiro, 1998
Book | Smoller, L.A., ‘The Alfonsine Tables and the End of the World: Astrology andApocalyptic Calculation in the Later Middle Ages’, pp. 211-39
A history of western astrology - S. J. Tester, 1987Book | Introduction
Plato's universe - Gregory Vlastos, 1975Book
Week 4 - Natural Philosophy and Science (23 items)
Required Reading (3 items)
The emergence of a scientific culture: science and the shaping of modernity, 1210-1685 -Stephen Gaukroger, 2006
Book | Read chapter “Augustinian synthesis to Aristotelian amalgam”, pp. 47-86.(Available in the Library and as an e-book)
Technology as Magic in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance - William Eamon, 1983Article | Available online via Academia.edu (requires registration)
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Nature, Formative Power and Intellect in the Natural Philosophy of Albert the Great - AdamTakahashi, 2008
Article
Further reading (20 items)
Luminous Gems, Mythical and Real - Sydney H. Ball, 1938Article
Birds and Medical Magic; The Eagle-Stone - A. A. Barb, 1950Article
The natural and the supernatural in the Middle Ages - Robert Bartlett, 2008Book | Ch. 4 ‘“The secrets of nature and art”: Roger Bacon’s Opus Maius’
Warriors of the cloisters: the Central Asian origins of science in the medieval world -Christopher I. Beckwith, 2012
Book | Particularly chapter “The recursive argument method of medieval science”, pp.11-36
A Tale of Two Fishes: Magical Objects in Natural History from Antiquity Through theScientific Revolution - Brian P. Copenhaver, 1991-07
Article
Augustine to Galileo: The history of science A.D. 400-1650 - A. C. Crombie, 1961Book | 2 vols
Robert Grosseteste and the Pursuit of Religious and Scientific Learning in the Middle Ages -Jack P. Cunningham, Mark Hocknull, 2016
Book
Science and technology in world history - David Deming, 2010Book
Science and the secrets of nature: books of secrets in medieval and early modern culture -William Eamon, 1994
Book
Magical jewels of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, particularly in England - JoanEvans, 2004
Book | esp. chs. 4 & 6
English mediaeval lapidaries - Joan Evans, Mary Sidney Serjeantson, Early English TextSociety, 1933
Book
Natural particulars: nature and the disciplines in Renaissance Europe - Anthony Grafton,Nancy G. Siraisi, 1999
Book
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Physical science in the Middle Ages - Edward Grant, 1977Book
A history of science, magic and belief: from medieval to early modern Europe - Steven P.Marrone, 2015
Book
On the threshold of exact science: selected writings of Anneliese Maier on late medievalnatural philosophy - Anneliese Maier, Steven D. Sargent, 1982
Book
Medieval natural history - Karen Meier Reeds, Tomoni KinukawaChapter
The Eagle: bird of magic and medicine in a Middle English translation of the Kyranides - S.E. Sheldon, 1977
Article
Roman science: origins, development, and influence to the later Middle Ages - WilliamHarris Stahl, 1978
Book
Myth and science in the twelfth century: a study of Bernard Sylvester - Brian Stock, 1972Book
Medieval robots: mechanism, magic, nature, and art - Elly Rachel Truitt, 2015Book
Week 5 - Alchemy (26 items)
Required Reading (3 items)
Medieval alchemy - William R. NewmanChapter
The chemical choir - P. G. Maxwell-Stuart, 2008Book | Ch. 5 ‘Mediaeval Europe: Translations, Debates and Symbols’, pp. 55-82
What Have We Learned from the Recent Historiography of Alchemy? - William R. Newman,2011
Article
Further reading (23 items)
Marvell and alchemy - Lyndy Abraham, 1990Book
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A dictionary of alchemical imagery - Lyndy Abraham, 1998Book
Alchemy and the occult: a catalogue of books and manuscripts from the collection of Pauland Mary Mellon given to Yale University Library - Beinecke Rare Book and ManuscriptLibrary, 1968-1977
Book | 2 vols
The foundations of Newton's alchemy, or, The hunting of the greene lyon - Betty Jo TeeterDobbs, 1975
Book
The secret history of Hermes Trismegistus: hermeticism from ancient to modern times -Florian Ebeling, David Lorton, Jan Assmann, 2011
Book
Magical jewels of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, particularly in England - JoanEvans, 2004
Book
Alchemy: the medieval alchemists and their royal art - Johannes Fabricius, 1976Book
Chaucer the Alchemist: Physics, mutability, and the medieval imagination - Alexander N.Gabrovsky, 2015
Book
The elements of alchemy - Cherry Gilchrist, 1998Book
An Alchemical Tract Attributed to Albertus Magnus - Pearl Kibre, 1944Article
Studies in medieval science: alchemy, astrology, mathematics and medicine - Pearl Kibre,1984
Book | Sections on alchemy
Alchemy in Europe: a guide to research - Claudia Kren, 2013Book
Technology and Alchemical Debate in the Late Middle Ages - William Newman, 1989Article
Secrets of nature: astrology and alchemy in early modern Europe - William RoyallNewman, Anthony Grafton, 2001
Book
Words and Works in the History of Alchemy - Tara E. Nummedal, 2011Article
The alchemical corpus attributed to Raymond Lull - Michela Pereira, 1989Book
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Lullian Alchemy: Aspects and Problems of the corpus of Alchemical Works Attributed toRamon Llull (XIV-XVII centuries) - Michela Pereira, 1990
Article
Mater Medicinarum: English Physicians and the Alchemical Elixir in the Fifteenth Century -M. Pereira
Chapter
Some Problems with the Historiography of Alchemy - L.M. Principe, W.R. NewmanChapter
Alchemy Restored - Lawrence M. Principe, 2011Article
The alchemists - F. Sherwood Taylor, 1976Book
A history of magic and experimental science: during the first thirteen centuries of our era -Lynn Thorndike, 1923
Book | Eight volumes. [Browse sections on alchemy]
Alchemy - Eric John Holmyard, 1990Book | Ch. 6, 'Early Western Alchemy', pp. 105-152
Week 6 – Independent Learning Week (10 items)
Suggested activities:
A mock source exercise: See module handbook for details
Read a book from the Reading List cover to cover: Students can read any book from theME3427 Handbook or Reading List and, among them, the coordinator suggests these:
The foundations of modern science in the Middle Ages: their religious, institutional, andintellectual contexts - Edward Grant, 1996
Book
The beginnings of Western science: the European scientific tradition in philosophical,religious, and institutional context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450 - David C. Lindberg, 1992
Book
The chemical choir - P. G. Maxwell-Stuart, 2008
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Astrology: from Ancient Babylon to the present day - P. G. Maxwell-Stuart, 2010Book
A kingdom of stargazers: astrology and authority in the late medieval crown of Aragon -Michael A. Ryan, 2011
Book
Medieval & early Renaissance medicine: an introduction to knowledge and practice -Nancy G. Siraisi, 1990
Book | Available in the Library and as an e-book
Medieval robots: mechanism, magic, nature, and art - Elly Rachel Truitt, 2015Book
Week 7 - Medicine (I): Galenism & University Training (32 items)
Required Reading (2 items)
Anatomy, physiology, and medical theory - Danielle JacquartChapter
Medieval & early Renaissance medicine: an introduction to knowledge and practice -Nancy G. Siraisi, 1990
Book | Chapters “Physiological and anatomical knowledge”, pp. 78-114, and “Diseaseand treatment”, pp. 115-152. [It is recommended that you also read “Medical education”,pp. 48-77, although this chapter is not compulsory.] Available in the Library and as ane-book
Further Reading (30 items)
The history of medicine: a very short introduction - W. F. Bynum, 2008Book | Available in the Library and as an e-book
Health and wellness in the Renaissance and Enlightenment - Joseph Patrick Byrne, 2013Book
The Western medical tradition, 800 BC to AD 1800 - Lawrence I. Conrad, 1995Book
Doctor Bernard de Gordon: professor and practitioner - Luke E. Demaitre, 1980Book
Medieval medicine: the art of healing, from head to toe - Luke E. Demaitre, c2013
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Early modern medicine and natural philosophy - Peter Distelzweig, Benjamin Goldberg,Evan R. Ragland, 2015
Book
Medieval Islamic medicine: IbnRidwān's treatise, "On the prevention of bodily ills in Egypt" - Michael W. Dols, 1984
Book
Medicine from the Black Death to the French Disease - R. K. French, Jon Arrizabalaga, LuisGarcía-Ballester, Andrew Cunningham, 1998
Book
Galen as a medical practitioner: Problems in diagnosis - Luis García BallesterChapter
Making women's medicine masculine: the rise of male authority in pre-moderngynaecology - Monica H. Green, 2008
Book | Available in the Library and as an e-book
Women's healthcare in the medieval west: texts and contexts - Monica H. Green, 2000Book
Blood, sweat, and tears: the changing concepts of physiology from antiquity into earlymodern Europe - H. F. J. Horstmanshoff, Helen King, Claus Zittel, 2012
Book
Sexuality and medicine in the Middle Ages - Danielle Jacquart, Claude Thomasset, 1988Book
La médecine arabe et l'Occident médiéval - Danielle Jacquart, Françoise Micheau, 1996Book
Scientia in margine: études sur les marginalia dans les manuscrits scientifiques du moyenâge à la renaissance - Danielle Jacquart, Charles Burnett, 2005
Book
Medieval medicus: physicians and health care in England, 1100-1154 - Edward J. Kealey,c1981
Book
Medicine and the Seven Deadly Sins in Late Medieval Literature and Culture - VirginiaLangum, 2016
Book
Change and continuity in early modern medicine (1500-1700) - Heikki Mikkeli, Ville MarttilaChapter
Quomodo Scit Quod Mortuus Erat? Signs of Death in 15th-Century Italy - Jyrki Nissi, 2016
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From Democedes to Harvey: studies in the history of medicine from the Greeks to theRenaissance - Vivian Nutton, 1988
Book
Medical Practice - Katharine ParkChapter
Natural particulars: nature and the disciplines in Renaissance Europe - Anthony Grafton,Nancy G. Siraisi, 1999
Book
Signa mortifera: Death and prognostication in Early Medieval monastic medicine -Frederick S. Paxton, 1993
Article
The Cambridge illustrated history of medicine - Roy Porter, 1996Book
Medicine and society in later medieval England - Carole Rawcliffe, 1995Book
Jews, medicine, and medieval society - Joseph Shatzmiller, c1994Book
Taddeo Alderotti and his pupils: two generations of Italian medical learning - Nancy G.Siraisi, 1981
Book | Available in the Library and as an e-book
History, medicine, and the traditions of Renaissance learning - Nancy G. Siraisi, 2007Book
The double face of Janus, and other essays in the history of medicine - Owsei Temkin, 1977Book
Medicine and the law in the Middle Ages - Wendy J. Turner, Sara M. Butler, 2014Book
Week 8 - Medicine (II): Popular & Religious Healing (23 items)
Required Reading (3 items)
Charms and Prayers in Medieval Medical Theory and Practice - L. T. Olsan, 2003Article
Performative Rituals for Conception and Childbirth in England, 900–1500 - Peter MurrayJones, Lea T. Olsan, 2015
Article
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‘In pain you shall bear children’ (Gen. 3:16): Medieval prayers for a safe delivery -Marianne Elsakkers
Chapter
Further reading (20 items)
Birds and Medical Magic; The Eagle-Stone - A. A. Barb, 1950Article
Birds and Medical Magic: The Vulture Epistle - A. A. Barb, 1950Article
Medieval herbals: the illustrative traditions - Minta Collins, 2000Book
The Early Medieval ‘Medicus’, the Saint—and the Enchanter - Valerie J. Flint, 1989Article
Textual healing: essays on medieval and early modern medicine - Elizabeth Lane Furdell,2005
Book
Visualizing medieval medicine and natural history, 1200-1550 - Jean A. Givens, KarenReeds, Alain Touwaide, c2006
Book
Women's Medical Practice and Health Care in Medieval Europe - Monica GreenArticle
Documenting medieval women’s medical practice - Monica H. GreenChapter
Making women's medicine masculine: the rise of male authority in pre-moderngynaecology - Monica H. Green, 2008
Book | Available in the Library and as an e-book
Myriam Greilsammer, L'envers du tableau. Mariage et maternité en Flandre médiévale,Paris: Armand Colin, 1990, chapters "Grossesses, accouchements, naissances, enfants",pp. 191-222, and "Savoir-pouvoir: La menace des sages-femmes", pp. 223-253.
Magic, Miracle, and Popular Practice in the Early Medieval West: Anglo-Saxon England -Karen L. Jolly
Chapter
Medieval medicine in illuminated manuscripts - Peter Murray Jones, Peter Murray Jones,1998
Book
Studies in medieval Arabic medicine: theory and practice - Max Meyerhof, PenelopeJohnstone, 1984
Book
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A Medieval Lesson on Bodily Knowing: Women's Experience and Men's Thought - J. GilesMilhaven
Article
Latin Charms of Medieval England: Verbal Healing in a Christian Oral Tradition - Lea T.Olsan, 1992
Article
Medicine and society in later medieval England - Carole Rawcliffe, 1995Book
Medieval English medicine - Stanley Rubin, 1974Book
Fascinating women: The evil eye in medical scholasticism - Fernando Salmón, MontserratCabré
Chapter
Medicine in medieval England - Charles Hugh Talbot, 1967Book
Making Right Practice? Regulating Surgery and Medicine - Kira RobisonChapter
Week 9 - Magic, Necromancy, and Witchcraft (21 items)
Required Reading (3 items)
The Specific Rationality of Medieval Magic - Richard Kieckhefer, 1994Article
The magician, the witch and the law - Edward Peters, 1978Book | Read: “Learning and magic in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries”, pp. 63-84
[digitised], and “The systematic condemnation of magic in the thirteenth century”, pp.85-109.
From Sorcery to Witchcraft: Clerical Conceptions of Magic in the Later Middle Ages -Michael D. Bailey
Article
Further Reading (18 items)
The survival of the magic arts - A. A, BarbChapter
Witchcraft and the occult as boundary maintenance devices - Nachman Ben YehudaChapter
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The birth of the term ‘magic’ - Jan N. BremmerChapter
Magic in the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles - Jan N. BremmerChapter
The Malleus maleficarum and the construction of witchcraft: theology and popular belief -Hans Peter Broedel, 2003
Book | Available in the Library and as an e-book
Magic and divination in the Middle Ages: texts and techniques in the Islamic and Christianworlds - Charles Burnett, 1996
Book
Rewriting magic: an exegesis of the visionary autobiography of a fourteenth centuryFrench monk - Claire Fanger, 2015
Book
The rise of magic in early medieval Europe - Valerie I. J. Flint, 1991Book | Chapters “Forbidden magic: The focal points of Christian disapproval”, pp.
203-253, and “Encouraged magic: The process of rehabilitation”, pp. 254-301. [Please,read only superficially, as it is only here to give you some background knowledge.]
Magic in English thirteenth-century miracle collections - Valerie I.J. FlintChapter
Augustine and magic - Fritz GrafChapter
‘The divels speciall instruments’: women and witchcraft before the ‘great witch-hunt’ -Karen Jones, Michael Zell, 2005
Article
Canon Law and Chaucer on licit and illicit magic - Henry Ansgar KellyChapter
Magic in medieval manuscripts - Sophie Page, 2004Book | esp. ch. 2 on natural magic
Miracle or magic - Schoedel, William R; Malina, Bruce J, 1986Article
Binding words: textual amulets in the Middle Ages - Don C. Skemer, 2006Book
Astral magic and intellectual changes (twelfth-fifteenth centuries): ‘Astrological images’and the concept of ‘addressative’ magic - Nicolas Weill-Parot
Chapter
Image, word and medicine in the Middle Ages - P. Murray JonesChapter
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Talismans: Magic as Science? Necromancy among the Seven Liberal Arts - C. BurnettChapter
Week 10 - Geography and Exploration (32 items)
Required Reading (2 items)
Heaven and earth in the Middle Ages: the physical world before Columbus - Rudolf Simek,1996
Book | Chapters “The fascination of the world Down Under: The fourth continent and theantipodes”, pp. 39-55, and “To the ends of the earth”, pp. 56-72. [If you wish, you can alsoread chapter “The journey to the centre of the earth: Jerusalem as the hub of the world”,pp. 73-81.]
Broader horizons: a study of Johannes Witte de Hese's Itinerarius and medieval travelnarratives - Scott D. Westrem, c2001
Book | Ch. 1 ‘The Itinerarius: Content and Context’
Further Reading (30 items)
Marco Polo and the encounter of East and West - Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Amilcare A.Iannucci, John Tulk, 2008
Book
The witness and the other world: exotic European travel writing, 400-1600 - Mary BCampbell, 1988
Book | Available in the Library and as an e-book
The maps of Matthew Paris: medieval journeys through space, time and liturgy - Daniel K.Connolly, 2009
Book
The world of travellers: exploration and imagination - Cornelis Dekker, K. E. Olsen, TetteHofstra, 2009
Book
The world map, 1300-1492: the persistence of tradition and transformation - Evelyn Edson,2007
Book
Mapping time and space: how medieval mapmakers viewed their world - Evelyn Edson,British Library, 1997
Book
The birth of territory - Stuart Elden, 2013
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Erikson, Eskimos & Columbus: medieval European knowledge of America - James RobertEnterline, Center for American Places, 2002
Book
The tropics of empire: why Columbus sailed south to the Indies - Nicolás Wey Gómez, 2008Book
Chivalry and exploration, 1298-1630 - Jennifer Robin Goodman, 1998Book
New worlds, ancient texts: the power of tradition and the shock of discovery - AnthonyGrafton, April Shelford, Nancy G. Siraisi, 1992
Book | Available in the Library and as an e-book
The Hereford world map: medieval world maps and their context - P. D. A. Harvey, 2006Book
Writing East: the "travels" of Sir John Mandeville - Iain Macleod Higgins, c1997Book
Geography: history and concepts : a students guide - Arild Holt-Jensen, Brian Fullerton,1988
Book
Medieval ships and shipping - Gillian Hutchinson, 1994Book
A wheel of memory: the Hereford Mappamundi - Naomi Reed Kline, c2001Book
Marco Polo and the discovery of the world - John Larner, 1999Book
Angels on the edge of the world: geography, literature, and English community, 1000-1534- Kathy Lavezzo, 2006
Book
Mapping medieval geographies: geographical encounters in the Latin West and beyond,300-1600 - Keith D. Lilley, 2013
Book
"The earth is our book": geographical knowledge in the Latin West ca. 400-1000 - NataliaLozovsky, 2000
Book
All possible worlds: a history of geographical ideas - Geoffrey J. Martin, Preston E. James,Eileen W. James, Preston E. James, 1993
Book
The conquest of the North Atlantic - G. J. Marcus, 1980
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Atlas of the medieval world - Rosamond McKitterick, 2004Book
Islamic and Middle Eastern geographers and travellers: critical concepts in Islamic thought- Ian Richard Netton, 2007
Book
Travel and travellers of the Middle Ages - A. P. Newton, 1926Book
The medieval expansion of Europe - J. R. S. Phillips, 1998Book | Available in the Library and as an e-book
Before Orientalism: Asian peoples and cultures in European travel writing, 1245-1510 - KimM. Phillips, 2014
Book
Text and territory: geographical imagination in the European Middle Ages - SylviaTomasch, Sealy Gilles, 1998
Book
Geography - David WoodwardChapter
The world translated: Marco Polo’s Le Devisement dou monde, The Book of Sir JohnMandeville, and their medieval audiences - Suzanne M. Yeager
Chapter
Week 11 - Animals, Wonders and Monsters (26 items)
Required Reading (4 items)
Wonders and the order of nature, 1150-1750 - Lorraine Daston, Katharine Park, 2001Book | Chapter “The topography of wonder”, pp. 21-66. [You can also read chapters
“The properties of things”, pp. 67-108 (◊), and “Wonder among the philosophers”, pp.109-134 (◊), for you will really enjoy them.]Available in the Library and as an e-book
The monstrous Middle Ages - Bettina Bildhauer, Robert Mills, 2003Book | 'Introduction: Conceptualizing the Monstrous', pp. 1-27
Monstrosity and Race in the Late Middle Ages - Debra Higgs StricklandChapter
The art of memory and the bestiary - B. RowlandChapter
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Further Reading (22 items)
A dictionary of fabulous beasts - Richard W. Barber, Anne Riches, Rosalind Dease, 1971Book
The natural and the supernatural in the Middle Ages - Robert Bartlett, 2008Book | Chapter “Dogs and dog-heads: The inhabitants of the world”, pp. 71-110.
Metamorphosis and identity - Caroline Walker Bynum, 2001Book | Chapter “Wonder”, pp. 37-75.
Of giants: sex, monsters, and the Middle Ages - Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, c1999Book
Animals in the Middle Ages: a book of essays - Nona C. Flores, 1996Book
The monstrous races in medieval art and thought - John Block Friedman, 1981Book
The Mark of the beast: the medieval bestiary in art, life, and literature - Debra Hassig,1999
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Animals in Context: beasts on the Hereford map and medieval natural history - MargrietHoogvliet
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Animals and the symbolic in mediaeval art and literature - L. A. J. R. Houwen, c1997Book
Marvels, monsters, and miracles: studies in the medieval and early modern imaginations -Timothy S. Jones, David A. Sprunger, 2002
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From Aesop to Reynard: beast literature in medieval Britain - Jill Mann, c2009Book
Mediaeval Latin and French bestiaries - F. McCulloch, University of North Carolina(1793-1962), 1960
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The Pheonix: Its nature and its place in the tradition of the Physiologus - Guy MermierChapter
The Other Close at Hand: Gerald of Wales and the “Marvels of the West” - Asa MittmanChapter
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The Ashgate research companion to monsters and the monstrous - 2012Book
Medieval Natural History - Karen Meier Reeds, Tomomi KinukawaChapter
A cultural history of animals in the medieval age - 2011Book | Available in the Library and as an e-book
Encountering the Monstrous: Saints and Dragons in Medieval Thought - Samantha RichesChapter
Heaven and earth in the Middle Ages: the physical world before Columbus - Rudolf Simek,Angela Hall, 1996
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The mediaeval bestiary and its textual tradition - Patricia Stewart, 2012Book
Animal allegory and late medieval surgical texts - K. van T’LandChapter
The ever-changing nature of the beast: Cultural change, lycanthropy and the question ofsubstantial transformation (from Petronius to Del Rio) - Jan R. Veenstra
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Readers and Primary Sources (20 items)
On signs (Opus maius, part 3, chapter 2) - Roger Bacon, ed. and trans. Thomas S. Maloney,2013
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Roger Bacon's philosophy of nature: a critical edition, with English translation,introduction, and notes, of De multiplicatione specierum and De speculis comburentibus -David C. Lindberg, 1983
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Lost letters of medieval life: English society, 1200-1250 - Martha Carlin, David Crouch,2013
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The Anglo-Saxon world: an anthology - Kevin Crossley-Holland, 2009Book
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Conjuring spirits: texts and traditions of late medieval ritual magic - Claire Fanger, 1998Book
The inquisitor's guide: a medieval manual on heretics - Bernard Gui, ed. Janet Shirley,2006
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Popular medicine in thirteenth-century England - Tony Hunt, 1990Book | pp. 78-99 digitised
The etymologies of Isidore of Seville - Stephen A. Barney, Isidore, 2006Book | Available in the Library and as an e-book
On the nature of things - Isidore of Seville, Calvin B. Kendall, Faith Wallis, 2016Book
The alchemy reader: from Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton - 2003Book
The Cambridge Old English reader - Richard Marsden, 2006Book
De universo: the pecular properties of words and their mystical significance ; the completeEnglish translation - Rabanus Maurus, ed. and trans. Priscilla Throop, 2009
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The occult in mediaeval Europe, 500-1500: a documentary history - P. G. Maxwell-Stuart,2005
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Medieval Christianity in practice - Miri Rubin, 2009Book
Medieval popular religion, 1000-1500: a reader - John R. Shinners, 1997Book
Medieval saints: a reader - Mary-Ann Stouck, 1999Book
Daughters of Hecate: women and magic in the ancient world - 2014Book | Available in the Library and as an e-book
Catholic England: faith, religion, and observance before the Reformation - R. N. Swanson,c1993
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Medieval medicine: a reader - Faith Wallis, 2010Book
Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages: a reader - Brett Edward Whalen, 2011Book
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Reference books (9 items)
The Cambridge history of later Greek and early medieval philosophy - A. H. Armstrong,1967
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The Cambridge history of magic and witchcraft in the West: from antiquity to the present -2015
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A dictionary of medieval terms and phrases - Christopher Corèdon, Ann Williams, 2004Book
The Oxford illustrated history of witchcraft and magic - 2017Book
The Cambridge history of later medieval philosophy: from the rediscovery of Aristotle tothe disintegration of scholasticism 1100-1600 - Norman Kretzmann, Anthony Kenny, JanPinborg, 1982
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The Cambridge history of christianity: Vol. 3: Early medieval christianities, c. 600--c. 1100 -Thomas F. X. Noble, Julia M. H. Smith, Roberta A. Baranowski, 2008
Book | Available in the Library and as an e-book
The Cambridge history of Christianity: Vol. 4: Christianity in Western Europe,c.1100-c.1500 - Miri Rubin, Walter Simons, 2009
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Religion and devotion in Europe, c.1215- c. 1515 - R. N. Swanson, 1995Book
A history of magic and experimental science: during the first thirteen centuries of our era -Lynn Thorndike, 1923
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