Magical imaginations : instrumental aesthetics in the English Renaissance /
Through analyses of texts ranging from sermons and theological treatises to medical tracts and legal documents, Genevieve Guenther sheds new light on magic as a cultural practice in early modern England. She demonstrates that magic was a highly pragmatic, even cynical endeavor infiltrating unexpecte...
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
[2012]
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