LEADER 03955nam 2200553 450 001 9910480204003321 005 20210831030732.0 010 $a0-271-07203-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9780271072036 035 $a(CKB)3710000000450488 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001520167 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12652081 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001520167 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11525904 035 $a(PQKB)10005755 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6224269 035 $a(DE-B1597)584367 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780271072036 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000450488 100 $a20200929d2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRewriting magic $ean exegesis of the visionary autobiography of a fourteenth-century French monk /$fClaire Fanger 210 1$aUniversity Park, Pennsylvania :$cThe Pennsylvania State University Press,$d[2015] 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (234 pages) 225 1 $aMagic in history 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-271-06650-4 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tList of Figures --$tPreface --$tStructure and Referencing System for the Liber florum New Compilation --$tIntroduction: Lost and Found Knowledge --$tPart 1 Foundation --$tChapter 1 Like Stones of Fire: I Encounter the Book of Visions --$tChapter 2 A Mysticism of Signs and Things: The Ars Notoria and the Sacraments --$tChapter 3 Penance: The Sacrament of the Middle of Life --$tPart 2 Restoration --$tChapter 4 Errors of Intellect, Errors of Will: I Encounter the Book of Figures --$tChapter 5 Magical Objects of Knowledge: Categorizing the Exceptive Arts --$tChapter 6 Visionary Exegesis and Prophecy: Milk and Meat --$tConclusion: Future History --$tNotes --$tSelected Bibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn Rewriting Magic, Claire Fanger explores a fourteenth-century text called The Flowers of Heavenly Teaching. Written by a Benedictine monk named John of Morigny, the work all but disappeared from the historical record, and it is only now coming to light again in multiple versions and copies. While John?s book largely comprises an extended set of prayers for gaining knowledge, The Flowers of Heavenly Teaching is unusual among prayer books of its time because it includes a visionary autobiography with intimate information about the book?s inspiration and composition. Through the window of this record, we witness how John reconstructs and reconsecrates a condemned liturgy for knowledge acquisition: the ars notoria of Solomon. John?s work was the subject of intense criticism and public scandal, and his book was burned as heretical in 1323. The trauma of these experiences left its imprint on the book, but in unexpected and sometimes baffling ways. Fanger decodes this imprint even as she relays the narrative of how she learned to understand it. In engaging prose, she explores the twin processes of knowledge acquisition in John?s visionary autobiography and her own work of discovery as she reconstructed the background to his extraordinary book. Fanger?s approach to her subject exemplifies innovative historical inquiry, research, and methodology. Part theology, part historical anthropology, part biblio-memoir, Rewriting Magic relates a story that will have deep implications for the study of medieval life, monasticism, prayer, magic, and religion. 410 0$aMagic in history. 606 $aMagic$xReligious aspects$xChristianity 606 $aChristian heresies 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMagic$xReligious aspects$xChristianity. 615 0$aChristian heresies. 676 $a133.430902 700 $aFanger$b Claire$01043544 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910480204003321 996 $aRewriting magic$92468593 997 $aUNINA