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Item Christian Ritual Magic in the Middle Ages(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013) Fanger, ClaireThis article gives a brief introduction to the area of medieval ritual magic, outlining the main kinds of texts likely to be understood as belonging to the category – image magic, necromancy, and theurgy or angel magic. Before moving to an overview of the current state of scholarship, it makes note of some watershed works that helped to open up the area of intellectual magic for study. A number of interesting new discoveries, both textual and historical, have been made since the 1990s, and these discoveries have in turn instigated a push toward further exploration and editing of medieval texts and manuscripts of ritual magic, which is turning out to be a more interesting and diverse category than might once have been assumed.Item The Dynamics of Holy Power as Reflected in the Narrative Structure in the Lives of St Martin and St Anthony(Canadian Society of Medievalists, 1987) Fanger, ClaireItem “In a Twelfth-century Hand, in Latin, with Abbreviations”: The Independent Scholar as a Mirror for the University(Canadian Society of Medievalists, 2003) Fanger, ClaireItem Libri Nigromantici: The Good, the Bad, and the Ambiguous in John of Morignyﾒs Flowers of Heavenly Teaching(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012) Fanger, ClaireItem Magic(Oxford University Press, 2013) Fanger, Claire; Pollmann, Karla; Otten, WillemienThis section of The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine explores magic. The author discusses: magic in Aug.'s thought; medieval reception-encyclopedic and legal; medieval reception-theological and philosophical; Renaissance magic and the Protestant Reformation; and modern academic and Max Weber.Item Mirror, Mask and Anti-self: Forces of Literary Creation in Dion Fortune and W.B. Yeats(Michigan State University Press, 2008) Fanger, Claire; Versluis, Arthur; Irwin, Lee; Richards, John; Weinstein, MelindaIn what follows, we will explore some of the links between self-creation and artistic creation in the works of two early twentieth century occultists who were also responsible for works of fiction and poetry: the novelist Dion Fortune, and the great modern poet W. B. Yeats. A part of my concern will be to show how the functions and processes of creative activity documented by these authors may be mapped onto a set of essentially Freudian ideas, particularly those surrounding narcissism.Item Sacred and Secular Knowledge Systems in the "Ars Notoria" and the "Flowers of Heavenly Teaching" of John of Morigny(Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2010) Fanger, Claire; Kilcher, Andreas B.; Theisohn, PhilippItem Shimmering Magic: Cross-cultural Explorations of the Aesthetic, Moral, and Mystical Significance of Reflecting and Deflecting Shine(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017) Romberg, Raquel; Fanger, ClaireThis introduction lays basic theoretical groundwork that helps tie together these different articles on ritual uses of shimmer. Contributors examine not only how contemporary technologies of mass production (tinfoil, plastic sequins) and reproduction (photographs) have entered both iconoclast and iconophile ritual and popular culture spheres; they also illustrate how metaphoric and metonymic forms of agency and presence are attributed to shimmering properties and substances. Contributors have a common purpose in probing the limit of common sense assumptions about the agency of shine as presencing (rather than just representing) the divine.Item The Formative Feminine and the Immobility of God: Gender and Cosmogony in Bernard Silvestris's Cosmographia(University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998) Fanger, Claire; Townsend, David; Taylor, Andrew