The Acceptance of Charms in the Fifteenth Century

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14 octobre 2014

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Hypothèses : carnets de recherches en Sciences humaines et sociales

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Laura, « The Acceptance of Charms in the Fifteenth Century », The Recipes Project, ID : 10.58079/tcrx

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By Laura Mitchell Wellcome Library, London. Recipe for staunching blood with cockerel in MS 5262, early fifteenth century. Includes the Longinus miles charm. For a while now I’ve been very interested in medieval people’s relationships with magic texts. What drew them to copy down their particular texts? Did they delight in the absurdities of directions to become invisible or to remove women’s clothing or did they truly believe it would work? Was it something ordinary or something to be asha...

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