Magic in Late Medieval German Literature: The Case of the Good Magician Malagis

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Magic in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age – Literature, Science, Religion, Philosophy, Music, and Art. An Introduction 1
5. Magical (and Maligned) Metalworkers: Understanding Representations of Early and High Medieval Blacksmiths 109
6. Painted Eyes, Magical Sieves and Carved Runes: Charms for Catching and Punishing Thieves in the Medieval and Early Modern Germanic Tradition 149
7. Constructing the Magical Biography of the Irish Druid Mog Ruith 219
8. Zum Umgang mit Zauberern im Rahmen frühmittelalterlicher Missionsanstrengungen (Dealing with Magicians Within the Framework of Early Medieval Missionizing Efforts) 231
9. Magic and Science: The Portail des libraires, Rouen 259
10. The Magic of Love: Queen Isolde, the Magician Clinschor, and “Seeing” in Gottfried’s Tristan and Wolfram’s Parzival 291
11. Magical Gifts in Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan und Isolde and the Rejection of Magic 315
12. Was Eustace Diabolical? Magic and Devilry in Le roman de Wistasse le moine 337
13. Merlin, or, a Prophet Turning Magician 377
14. The Book of Zabulon – A Quest for Hidden Secrets: Intertextuality and Magical Genealogy in Middle High German Literature, with an Emphasis on Reinfried von Braunschweig 397
15. Miracles and Magic: Necromantic Practices Found in Cantiga 125 423
16. Magic at the Margins: The Mystification of Maugis d’Aigremont 439
17. The Magician at Home with his Family: Comparative Historical Ethnographies of Two Pre- Modern Magicians from Autobiographical Sources: John of Morigny and the Tibetan Monk Milarepa 475
18. Curious Clerks: Image Magic and Chaucerian Poetics 489
19. Representing Magic and Science in The Franklin’s Tale and The Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale: Chaucer’s Exploration of Connected Topics 507
20. Magic in Late Medieval German Literature: The Case of the Good Magician Malagis 523
21. Motives, Means, and a Malevolent Mantel: The Case of Morgan le Fay’s Transgressions in Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur 547
22. Witchcraft, Heinrich Kramer’s Nuremburg Handbook, and Ecclesiasticus: The Construction of the Fifteenth-Century Civic Sorceress 565
23. Magic and Ritual in Late-Medieval and Early-Modern Popular Medicine 591
24. Attempted Murder by Magic: The Sorcerer and His Apprentice in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron 1 609
25. How Magical Was Renaissance Magic? 637
26. Magic in Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen’s Saul and the Witch of Endor 657
27. Heterochronic Representation of Magic in Czech Chapbooks 685
28. Rethinking Max Weber’s Theory of Disenchantment 705
29. Contributors 741
30. Index 749