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Magic and divination at the courts of Burgundy and France : text and context of Laurens Pignon's Contre les devineurs (1411)
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ISSN: 09208607 ISBN: 9004109250 9004247378 9789004109254 Year: 1998 Volume: . 83 Publisher: Leiden: Brill,

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The magicians and astrologers who frequented the courts of Burgundy and France during the reign of Charles VI to render their dubious services to king and nobles, induced friar Laurens Pignon OP to write a treatise called Contre les devineurs (1411) which he dedicated to John the Fearless, duke of Burgundy. This book presents a critical edition of the treatise and tries to reconstruct its historical and intellectual context by examining the role of magic and astrology at court. By means of theological and philosophical arguments which he derives from Aquinas, Pignon demonstrates the dangers and deficiencies of divination. In three appendices editions of supplementary documents are supplied: a confession of a court-magician, two divinatory texts and a fictional prognostication on the house of Burgundy.


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Building the past
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ISBN: 3631541538 0820477478 Year: 2006 Volume: v. 7 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main ; Bruxelles ; New York Peter Lang

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Stadt, Kanzlei und Kultur im Übergang zur frühen Neuzeit = City culture and urban chanceries in an era of change
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ISBN: 3631397216 0820473391 9780820473390 9783631397213 Year: 2004 Volume: 4 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang,

Tradition and innovation in an era of change
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ISBN: 3631355165 0820447005 Year: 2001 Volume: 1 Publisher: Bern ; Bruxelles ; Frankfurt Peter Lang


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Vaderlanden : verhaal van een Griekse in Nederland
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ISBN: 9072371496 Year: 1992 Publisher: Groningen : Styx publications,

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Himmel auf Erden
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Year: 2009 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Lang

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Normative Zentrierung
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ISBN: 3631382944 Year: 2002 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Lang

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Self-fashioning
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ISBN: 3631382936 0820464856 Year: 2003 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Lang

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The metamorphosis of magic from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period
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ISBN: 9042912278 Year: 2002 Volume: 1 Publisher: Leuven Paris Dudley, MA Peeters

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Airy nothings : imagining the otherworld of faerie from the middle ages to the age of reason : essays in honour of Alasdair A. MacDonald
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ISBN: 900425823X 9789004258235 9004245510 9789004245518 9781306198493 1306198496 Year: 2014 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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Ever since the Middle Ages the Otherworld of Faerie has been the object of serious intellectual scrutiny. What science in the end dismissed as airy nothings was given a local habitation and a name by art. This book presents some of the main chapters from the history and tradition of otherworldly spirits and fairies in the folklore and literature of the British Isles and Northern Europe. In eleven contributions different experts deal with some of the main problems posed by the scholarly and artistic confrontation with the Otherworld, which not only fuelled the imagination, but also led to the ultimate redundancy of learned perceptions of that Otherworld as it was finally obfuscated by the clarity of an enlightened age. Contributors include: Henk Dragstra, John Flood, Julian Goodare, Tette Hofstra, Robert Maslen, Richard North, Karin E. Olsen, David J. Parkinson, Rudolf Suntrup, Jan R. Veenstra, and Helen Wilcox.

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