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2023-09-29 06:25 PM
Announcements:

Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), lecture series starting Oct. 17, 2023 at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (www.cas-e.de). The schedule for the lectures is here: All lectures can be attended via zoom (link on the top right corner of the poster).

The politics of authenticity in esoteric practices, second annual conference of CAS-E, November 15-17, 2023, Forschungscampus Waischenfeld in Bavaria, Germany. The conference programme in a short and a long version (the latter equipped with abstracts of all presentations) is here. (First page contains a zoom link.)

Recent books by members
On the Christian Religion, by Marsilio Ficino, translated by Dan Attrell, Brett Bartlett. and David Porreca, (University of Toronto Press, 2022).
Magic in the Middle Ages, 3rd ed., Richard Kieckhefer (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
The Magic of Roguesa new sourcebook by Frank Klaassen and Sharon Hubbs Wright (Penn State Press, 2021).

If you have published a book in the last two years and want to post a notice here, email the secretary with title and publication data.

Fall 2023 newsletter is out! We continue to invite proposals for future issues. We are looking for lead articles (1500-2500 words) announcing new developments deriving from research in the study and teaching of magic and its related topics dealing with all regions and time periods. We are also looking for smaller pieces for our notes and queries column. News about dissertations in progress or completed, manuscript discoveries, or other such items are welcomed. Send your proposals to newsletters@societasmagica.org.

Don't forget that we have a Travel Bursary available for members presenting papers relevant to our interests at conferences. (It can be any conference).

 

The Societas Magica Newsletter, established (1995) by Richard Kieckhefer was printed twice yearly for members of the Societas Magica. After a brief hiatus 2017-2020, when production was discontinued due to lack of time on the part of the volunteer editors, it was taken up again under the leadership of Jenny Barnett, and is now being produced under lead editor Brendan Walsh. . Additional Help

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Lead articles are typically 1500 to 2000 words and cover recent research in the history of magic and related topics. Smaller pieces for the notes and queries column are also welcomed; these might include news about dissertations in progress or recently completed, manuscript discoveries, or other such items. Proposals for articles or notes on topics of potential interest to members of the Societas Magica may be sent to Brendan Walsh.

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Female Prophecy and the Visionary Performance in Seventeenth- Century Revolutionary England
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Magic Manuscripts from Somers and Jekyll in the Collections
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Notes on the Picatrix: Non- Heteronormative Sex, and Forthcoming Translation
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Israel’s Name at the Site of the Circumcision: Eros and Magic in the Shiur Qomah
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Women, Ritual, Power, and Mysticism in the Testament of Job
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Ciphers and Secrecy Among the Alchemists: A Preliminary Report
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Warding Off Doom in Mesopotamia and the Bible
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Objects as Demonic Subjects in Spiritual Warfare Handbooks
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A Report on Current Magical and Esoteric Blogs
Laura Mitchell
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Bewitched in their privities: Medical Responses to Infertility Witchcraft in Early Modern England
Jennifer Evans
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Purification in the Papyrae Graecae Magicae
Jonathan Shen
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Magic as the Basis for Social Cohesion in pre-Islamic Mesopotamia
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Some Observations on Jewish Love Magic: The Importance of Cultural Specificity
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Clerical Magic in Icelandic Folklore
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Developing a Curriculum on the History of Esotericism and Magic in Colombia
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Theses de magia
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Up on the Roof: Understanding an Anglo-Saxon Healing Practice
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The Key of Solomon: Toward a Typology of the Manuscripts
Robert Mathiesen
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Real, Apparent and Illusory Necromancy: Lamp Experiments and Historical Perceptions of Experimental Knowledge
Robert Goulding
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“Pictures passing before the mind’s eye”: the Tarot, the Order of the Golden Dawn, and William Butler Yeats’s Poetry
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Approaches To Teaching the History, Practice, and Material Culture of Magic: A Roundtable on Pedagogy
Amelia Carr
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Magic and Impotence in the Middle Ages
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What is and is not Magic: the case of Anglo-Saxon Prognostics
Roy M. Liuzza
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Islamic Magical Texts vs. Magical Artefacts
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A Magic All Its Own
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John of Morigny's Liber Visionum and a Royal Prayer Book from Poland
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Images of Desire
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Magic in the Cloister
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Encounters with Amulets
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Carol Menning
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The Warburg Institute: History and Current Activities
Will F. Ryan
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Sessions and Papers on magic at Kalamazoo
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Introduction of Societas Magica Newsletter
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