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Out of the Box, Out of the Bottle: Ambiguous Supernatural Entities in Medieval Magic

2018
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Recent years have witnessed growing scholarship on historical angel and demon conjuring texts. Less attention has been paid to ambiguous spiritual entities, such as “fairies,” “jinn,” and the morally neutral Greco-Roman “daemons,” which do not fit into the Judeo-Christian tradition. Others are ambiguous because the text’s author depicts angels or demons acting in unorthodox ways. This panel will offer a subtler understanding of pre-modern belief by exploring liminal spirits in conjuring texts. This will provide insight into how the elite intellectual culture of ritual magic in the West and East, popular beliefs, and inherited concepts from the Classical tradition intersected.David Porreca

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