In this paper, I will explore the rise and fall of the scholar magician or sorcerer, both as a popular dramatic subject and as an arc for individual characters, and the ways in which these figures tied into contemporary fears about the intersection of religion and developing scientific knowledge
England in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries was the stage for explorations of the ...
This dissertation argues that Shakespeare's plays Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Winter's...
From the very earliest times, mankind recognized the existence of witchcraft, but, apart from isolat...
My dissertation interrogates the a priori narrative of decline that informs the study of early moder...
In late medieval and early modern England, magic was everywhere. Although contested, occult beliefs ...
With deals made with the devil, the promise of base metals turned into gold, and charms cast over be...
In this thesis, 1 look at three works: The Sorcery Trial of Alice Kyieler, an account written in 132...
This paper considers three plays of the English Renaissance in which the figure of the magician loom...
This paper analyzes how literature produced during the early modern period fictionalized the identit...
This study explores the elements of supernaturalism and witchcraft as the prominent theme in Shakesp...
Though foundational theories of modem science emerged during the Renaissance, the arguttbly nonscien...
241 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008."The Magician in Medieval Ger...
This dissertation examines the ways that books can show the place of magic in fifteenth-century Engl...
The use of supernatural beings in four of Shakespeare’s plays – A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and...
This paper advances the case for how performance magic can be used as a larger medium for communicat...
England in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries was the stage for explorations of the ...
This dissertation argues that Shakespeare's plays Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Winter's...
From the very earliest times, mankind recognized the existence of witchcraft, but, apart from isolat...
My dissertation interrogates the a priori narrative of decline that informs the study of early moder...
In late medieval and early modern England, magic was everywhere. Although contested, occult beliefs ...
With deals made with the devil, the promise of base metals turned into gold, and charms cast over be...
In this thesis, 1 look at three works: The Sorcery Trial of Alice Kyieler, an account written in 132...
This paper considers three plays of the English Renaissance in which the figure of the magician loom...
This paper analyzes how literature produced during the early modern period fictionalized the identit...
This study explores the elements of supernaturalism and witchcraft as the prominent theme in Shakesp...
Though foundational theories of modem science emerged during the Renaissance, the arguttbly nonscien...
241 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008."The Magician in Medieval Ger...
This dissertation examines the ways that books can show the place of magic in fifteenth-century Engl...
The use of supernatural beings in four of Shakespeare’s plays – A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and...
This paper advances the case for how performance magic can be used as a larger medium for communicat...
England in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries was the stage for explorations of the ...
This dissertation argues that Shakespeare's plays Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Winter's...
From the very earliest times, mankind recognized the existence of witchcraft, but, apart from isolat...