The Basic Bibliography On Magic

The best starting place:
* Kieckhefer, Richard, Magic in the Middle Ages

(1943), 494-96.
* Meaney, Audrey L., "Women, Witchcraft and Magic in

Anglo-Saxon England," Superstition and Popular Medicine in
Anglo-Saxon England, ed. D. G. Scragg (Manchester:

Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies, 1989), pp. 9-40.
* Meens, Rob, "Magic and the Early Medieval World View,"

vols. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1923).
[Compendium of a full range of materials]

The Community, the Family and the Saint: Patterns of Power
in Early Medieval Europe, ed. Joyce Hill and Mary Swan

*indicates highly recommended reading Theoretical Approaches

(Turnhout: Brepols, 1998), 285-95.
* Monter, William, Ritual, Myth, and Magic in Early

from Anthropology, History, and Religion

Modern Europe (Athens, Ohio, 1983).
* Muchembled, Robert, ed., Magie et Sorcellerie en

* Eliade, Mircea, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of
Ecstasy (Princeton, 1972).

Europe du Moyen Age u nos jours (Paris: Armand Colin,
1994).

* Frazer, j. g., the Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and
Religion, 3rd ed. (London: Macmillan, 1911).

* Murdoch, Brian, "Peri hieres nousou: An Approach to
the Old High German Medical Charms," Mit regulu bithungan,

* Hsu, Francis L. K., Exorcising the Trouble Makers:
Magic, Science and Culture (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood

Press, 1983).
* *Kieckhefer, Richard, "The Specific Rationality of

Medieval Magic," American Historical Review 99 (1994),
813-36.

* Nelson, Marie, "`Wordsige and Worcsige': Speech Acts
in Three Old English Charms," Language and Style 17 (1984),

* Loomis, Charles Grant, White Magic (Cambridge, Mass.,
1948).

57-66.
* Nie, Giselle de, "Caesarius of Arles and Gregory of

Tours: Two Sixth-Century Gallic Bishops and `Christian
Magic,'" Cultural Identity and Cultural Integration: Ireland

* Merrifield, Ralph, The Archaeology of Ritual and Magic
(London: Batsford, 1987).

and Europe in the Early Middle Ages, ed. Doris Edel (Dublin:
Four Courts Press, 1995), 170-96.

* Moore, r. i., the Formation of a Persecuting Society:
Power and Deviance in Western Europe, 950-1250 (oxford,

1987).
* *Murray, Alexander, "Missionaries and Magic in

Dark-Age Europe," Past and Present 136 (1992), 186-205.
* Neusner, Jacob, Ernest S. Frerichs, and Paul Virgil

Litteraire du Moyen Age 43 (1976), 311-22.
* Partner, Peter, The Murdered Magicians: The Templars

McCracken Flesher, eds., Religion, Science, and Magic: In
Concert and In Conflict (Oxford: Oxford University Press,

1989).
* Nirenberg, David, Communities of Violence: Persecution

Philadelphia, 1978.
* Pinto, Lucille B., "Medical Science and Superstition:

A Report on a Unique Medical Scroll of the Eleventh-Twelfth
Century," Manuscripta 17 (1973), 12-21.

the Scope of Rationality (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1990).

* Remly, Lynn L., "Magic, Myth, and Medicine: The
Veterinary Art in the Middle Ages (9th-15th Centuries),"

* *Thomas, Keith, Religion and the Decline of Magic (New
York: Scribners, 1971).

Fifteenth Century Studies 2 (1979), 203-09.
* Riche, Pierre, "La magie a l'epoque carolingienne"

* See also Geertz, Hildred, "An Anthropology of Religion
and Magic, I" and Keith Thomas, "An Anthropology of Religion

and Magic, II," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 6
(1975), 71-89, 91-109.

* Runeberg, Arne. Witches, Demons, and Fertility Magic
(Helsingfors, 1947).

* Thorndike, Lynn, The Place of Magic in the
Intellectual History of Europe (New York: Columbia

University Press, 1905).
* Tylor, Edward B., Primitive Culture: Researches into

Transformation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994).
* *Russell, Jeffrey B., A History of Witchcraft:

the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religions,
Language, Art, and Custom (New York, 1889).

Sorcerers, Heretics and Pagans (London: Thames and Hudson,
1980).

* Van Engen, John, "The Christian Middle Ages as an
Historiographical Problem," American Historical Review 91

* *Russell, Jeffrey B., Witchcraft in the Middle Ages.
New York, 1972.

* Russell, Jeffrey B., The Prince of Darkness: Radical
Evil and the Power of Good in History (Ithaca: New York,

1988). See also the four volume series The Devil:
Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity

* A?alsteinsson, Jon Hnefill, "S?mundr Fro?i: a medieval
master of magic," Arv: Nordic Yearbook of Folklore, 50

(1977); Satan: The Early Christian Tradition (1981);
Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages (1984); and

(1994), 117-32.
* A?alsteinsson, Jon Hnefill, "Six Icelandic magicians

Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages," Journal of Jewish
Studies 41: 75-91.

* Barb, a.. a., "Birds and Medical Magic, " Journal of
the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 13 (1950), 316-22.

* Scragg, D. G., ed., Superstition and Popular Medicine
in Anglo-Saxon England (Manchester: Manchester Centre for

Anglo-Saxon Studies, 1989).
* Segl, Peter, ed., Der Hexenhammer: Entstehung und

* Barkley, Heather, "Liturgical Influences on the
Anglo-Saxon Charms against Cattle Theft," Notes & Queries 44

Umfeld des Malleus Maleficarum von 1487 (Colgone, 1988).
* Smallwood, T.M., "`God was Born in Bethlehem...': The

Supernatural in the Sagas of Icelanders," Scandinavian
Studies: essays presented to Dr. Henry Goddard Leach on the

* Spargo, John Webster, Virgil the Necromancer: Studies
in Virgilian Legends (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University

Washington Press, 1965), pp. 39-53.
* Blauert, Andreas, ed., Ketzer, Zauberer, Hexen: Die

Paganism (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1975).
* Stannard, Jerry, "Magiferous plants and magic in

medieval medical botany," Maryland Historian 8 (1977), no.
2, 33-46.

Medieval Folklore 3 (1994), 91-107.
* Bozaky, Edina, "Mythic Mediation in Healing

Incantations," in Health, Disease and Healing in Medieval
Culture, ed. Sheila Campbell, Bert Hall, and David Klausner

myths, fables, mediaeval romances, exempla, fabliaux,
jest-books, and local legends, 6 vols. (Bloomington: Indiana

dice: a Middle English poem and its background," Studia
Neophilologica, 52 (1980), 3-29.

(New York, 1939; 1970).
* Veenstra, J. R. Magic and Divination at the Courts of

* *Brown, Peter, "Sorcery, Demons and the Rise of
Christianity: From Late Antiquity into the Middle Ages,"

Burgundy and France: Text and Context of Laurens Pignon's
Contre les devineurs (1411). leiden: E.J. Brill, 1998).

Religion and Society in the Age of St. Augustine (London:
Faber and Faber, 1972), 119-46.

* Weston, l. m. c., "Women's Medicine, Women's Magic:
The Old English Metrical Childbirth Charms," Modern

* Brucker, Gene A., "Sorcery in early Renaissance
Florence," Studies in the Renaissance, 10 (1963).

Philology 92 (1995), 279-293.
* Zier, Mark, "The Healing Power of the Hebrew Tongue:

An Example from Late Thirteenth-Century England," in Health,
Disease and Healing in Medieval Culture, ed. Sheila

* Burnett, Charles, Magic and Divination in the Middle
Ages: Texts and Techniques in the Islamic and Christian

Campbell, Bert Hall, and David Klausner (New York: St.
Martin's Press, 1992).

Worlds (Aldershot: Variorum, 1996).
* Caciola, Nancy, "Wraiths, Revenants, and Ritual," in

* Yates, Frances A., Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic
Tradition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964).

Past and Present 152 (1996), 3-45.
* Cholmeley, h. p., john of Gaddesden and the Rosa

Magic in other Times or Places (outside Western Europe or

medicinae (Oxford: Clarendon, 1912).
* Clark, Stuart, Thinking with Demons: The Idea of

outside the Middle Ages)

Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe (Oxford, 1997).
* Cohn, Norman, Europe's Inner Demons: An Enquiry

* Budge, e. a. w., syriac Anatomy, Pathology and
Therapeutic (London, 1913).

Inspired by the Great Witch-Hunt (New York, 1975).
* Collins, Minta, Medieval Herbals: The Illustrative

* Gaster, Moses, Studies and Texts in Folklore, Magic,
Mediaeval Romance, Hebrew Apocrypha and Samaritan

Tradition (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999).
* Comparetti, Domenico, Vergil in the Middle Ages,

Archaeology, (London, 1925-28, repr. New York: Ktav, 1971).
* Graf, Fritz, Magic in the Ancient World (Cambridge,

Ma, 1997).
* Greenfield, Richard P.H., Traditions of Belief in Late

* Duffy, Eamon, The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional
Religion in England, c. 1400-c. 1580 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale

University Press, 1992).
* Eamon, William, "Technology as magic in the late

English medical manuscript, preserved in the Royal Library
at Stockholm," Archaeologia, 30 (1844), 397.

* Luck, Georg, Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the
Greek and Roman Worlds (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1985).

* Elsakkers, Marianne, "The Beekeeper's Magic: Taking a
Closer Look at the Old Germanic Bee Charms," Mankind

* Maguire, Henry, ed. Byzantine Magic (Washington, D.C.:
Dumbarton Oaks and Harvard University Press, 1995).

Quarterly 27 (1987), 447-61.
* Evans, Joan, Magical Jewels of the Middle Ages and

* Meyer, Marvin and Richard Smith, eds., Ancient
Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power (1994).

Renaissance, partiuclarly in England (Oxford: Clarendon,
1922).

* Mirecki, Paul, "The Coptic Wizard's Hoard," Harvard
Theological Review 87 (1994), 435-60.

* Evans, Joan and Mary S. Serjeantson, English Medieval
Lapidaries, eets 190 (london: Oxford University Press,

AMS Press, 1966).

Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic (University Park, PA:
Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998).

* Ferreiro, Alberto, "Simon Magus: The
Patristic-Medieval Traditions and Historiography," Apocrypha

* St. Augustine, City of God, books 8-10.
* Albertus Magnus, The book of secrets of Albertus

7 (1996), 147-65.
* Ferreiro, Alberto, ed. The Devil, Heresy and

Magnus of the virtues of herbs, stones and certain beasts,
also A book of the marvels of the world. Edited by Michael

Witchcraft in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey B.
Russell (Leiden: Brill, 1998).

R. Best and Frank H. Brightman (Oxford:Clarendon Press,
1973).

* *Flint, Valerie, The Rise of Magic in Early Medieval
Europe (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991).

* Caesarius of Heisterbach, The Dialogue on Miracles, 2
vols., trans. H. von E. Scott and C. C. Swinton Bland (New

York: Harcourt, Brace, 1929).
* Dawson, Warren R., ed. and trans., A Leechbook or

* Forbes, Thomas Rogers, The Midwife and the Witch (New
Haven: Yale up, 1966).

Collection of Medical Recipes of the Fifteenth Century
(London: Macmillan, 1934).

* Fuller, S. D., "Pagan Charms in Tenth-Century
Saxony?," Monatshefte 72 (1980), pp. 162-70.

* Davidson, L.S. and J. O. Ward, The Sorcery Trial of
Alice Kyteler (Binghamton, 1993).

* Ginzburg, Carolo, Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches'
Sabbath, trans. Raymond Rosenthal (New York, 1991).

* Ficino, Marsilio, Three Books on Life: A Critical
Edition and Translation with Introduction and Notes, ed. and

* Glosecki, Stephen, Shamanism and Old English Poetry
(New York: Garland, 1989).

trans. Carol V. Kaske and John R. Clark (Bingampton, NY:
Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1988).

* Gurevich, Aron, Medieval Popular Culture: Problems of
Belief and Perception, trans. Janos M. Bak and paul A.

* Grattan, j. h. g. and Charles Singer, Anglo-Saxon
Magic and Medicine, illustrated specially from the

Hollingsworth (Cambridge, 1988).
* Halpern, B.K. and J. M. Foley, "Power of the Word:

Healing Charms as Oral Genre," Journal of American Folklore
91 (1978).

* Isidore of Seville, Isidori Hispalensis episcopi
Etymologiarum sive Originvm libri XX, ed. W.M. Lindsay

* Harmening, Dieter, Superstitio: Uberlieferungs- und
theoriegeschichtliche Untersuchungen zur

(Oxford, 1911).
* Jacob de Voragine, The Golden Legend, 2 vols., trans.

kirchlich-theologischen Aberglaubensliteratur des
Mittelalters (Berlin, 1979).

William Granger Ryan (Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1993).

* Harmening, Dieter, "Magiciennes et sorcieres: La
mutation du concept de magie a la fin du moyen age," Heresis

* John of Salisbury, Frivolities of Courtiers and
Footprints of Philosophers, trans. Joseph B. Pike (London:

Oxford University Press, 1938).
* Kieckhefer, Richard, Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's

Parturating Man in Old Norse and Medieval Welsh Literature,"
in Figures of Speech: The Body in Medieval Art, History, and

Manual of the Fifteenth Century (UK: Sutton Press, 1997;
University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press).

Literature in Essays in Medieval Studies 11 (1995).
* Higley, Sarah, "The Legend of the Learned Man's

and Brewer, 1997), 127-60.
* Hill, Thomas D., "The Theme of the Cosmological Cross

in Two Old English Cattle Theft Charms," Notes & Queries NS
25 (1978), 488-90.

pp. 345-54.
* Townsend, David, The Alexandreis of Walter of

* Hollis, Stephanie, "Old English `Cattle Theft Charms:'
Manuscript Contexts and Social Uses," Anglia 115 (1997),

Ch?tillon: A Twelfth Century Epic (Philadelphia, 1996).

139-64.
* Holton, Frederick S., "Literary Tradition and the Old

English Bee Charm," Journal of Indo-European Studies 21
(1993), 37-53.

* Cockayne, Oswald, ed. and trans., Leechdoms,
Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England, 3 vols. Rolls

* Jochens, Jenny, "Magie et reparation entre hommes et
femmes dans les mythes et la societe germanico-nordiques a

travers les sagas et les lois scandinaves," Cahiers de
civilisation medievale, Xe-XIIe siecles, 36 (1993), 375-89.

* Dutton, Paul Edward, ed., Carolingian Civilization: A
Reader (Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 1993).

* Jolly, Karen Louise, "Father God and Mother Earth:
Nature-Mysticism in the Early Middle Ages," The Medieval

* Hampp, Irmgard, Beschworung, Segen, Gebet:
Untersuchungen zum Zauberspruch aus dem Bereich der

World of Nature: A Book of Essays, ed. Joyce E.
* Salisbury (Garland Press, 1992), pp. 221-52.

Volksheilkunde (Stuttgart: Silberburg, 1961).
* Hansen, Joseph, ed., Quellen und Untersuchungen zur

* Jolly, Karen Louise, Popular Religion in Late Saxon
England: Elf Charms in Context (Chapel Hill: University of

North Carolina Press, 1996).
* Karras, Ruth Mazo, "Pagan Survivals and Syncretism in

the Conversion of Saxony," Catholic Historical Review 72
(1986), 553-72.

Hexenverfolgung (Munich, 1900).
* Hillgarth, J. N., ed, Christianity and Paganism,

* Keck, David, Angels and Angelology in the Middle Ages
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).

350-750: the Conversion of Western Europe (Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986).

* Keefer, Sarah Larratt, "Ut in omnibus honorificetur
Deus: the Corsn?d Ordeal in Anglo-Saxon England," The

* Hunt, Tony, Popular Medicine in Thirteenth-Century
England: Introduction and Texts (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer,

1990).
* Kors, Alan C., and Edward Peters, eds., Witchcraft in

(Turnhout: Brepols, 1998), pp. 237-264.
* Kelly, Henry Ansgar, The Devil, Demonology, and

Europe, 1100-1700: a documentary History (Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1939).

Witchcraft (New York, rev. 1974).
* Kieckhefer, Richard, European Witch Trials: Their

* McNeill, John T. and Helena M., Gamer, Medieval
Handbooks of Penance (New York: Octagon Books, 1965).

Foundations in Popular and Learned Culture, 1300-1500
(London: Routledge, 1976).

* Ohrt, F., Danmarks Trylleformler [The magic formulae
of Denmark"] (Copenhagen, 1921).

* Kieckhefer, Richard, "The Holy and the Unholy:
Sainthood, Witchcraft, and Magic in Late Medieval Europe,"

* Shinners, John, ed., Medieval Popular Religion,
1000-1500: a reader (Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press,

1997).
* Spamer, Adolf and Johanna Nickel, Romanusbuchlein:

* Klaniczay, Gobor, The Uses of Supernatural Power: The
Transformation of Popular Religion in Medieval and Early

Historisch-philologischer Kommentar zu einem deutschen
Zauberbuch (Berlin: Akademie-Berlag, 1958).

Modern Europe, trans. Susan Singerman, ed. Karen Margolis
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990).

* Storms, Godfrid, ed. and trans., Anglo-Saxon Magic
(Halle: Nijhoff, 1948; repr. Folcroft, PA: Folcroft Library

* Lea, Henry Charles, A History of the Inquisition of
the Middle Ages (New York, 1955).

Editions, 1975).
* Van Haver, Jozef, Nederlandse Incantatieliteratuur:

* Lea, Henry Charles, Materials toward a History of
Witchcraft (New York, 1957).

Een gecommentarieerd compendium van Nederlandse
bezweringsformules (Gent: Secretariaat van de Koninklijke

Vlaamse Academie voor Taal-en Letterkunde, 1964).
* Wakefield, Walter L. and Austin P. Evans, trans. and

Articles (New York, 1992).
* MacKinney, Loren C., "An Unpublished Treatise on