The transformations of magic illicit and learned magic in the later middle ages and renaissanceby klaassen frankmagic in history university park pa the pennsylvania state university press 2013pp x 280. Frank klaassens the transformations of magic illicit learned magic in the later middle ages and renaissance avoids this and is the most important history of magic in the last decade klaassen makes a serious intellectual contribution and engages the concerns of historians who study all things natural and supernatural fitting to the history it tells the book ranges from the thirteenth century through the seventeenth traversing the medieval and early modern divide. The transformations of magic illicit learned magic in the later middle ages and renaissance magic in history amazonde frank klaassen fremdsprachige bucher. The transformations of magic illicit learned magic in the later middle ages and renaissance in this original provocative well reasoned and thoroughly documented book frank klaassen proposes that two principal genres of illicit learned magic occur in late medieval manuscripts image magic which could be interpreted and justified in scholastic . Frank klaassens the transformations of magic illicit learned magic in the later middle ages and renaissance avoids this and is the most important history of magic in the last decade klaassen makes a serious intellectual contribution and engages the concerns of historians who study all things natural and supernatural fitting to the history it tells the book ranges from the thirteenth century through the seventeenth traversing the medieval and early modern divide like the best