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--Tanya Luhrmann, Stanford University
"Claire Fanger, now having established how it is appropriate to write about magic, rewrites her rules. And this is what makes Rewriting Magic a really exciting read, the central theme being not only the medieval monk and his visionary book, but also a historical inquiry that lasted nearly two decades, involv[ing] a lot of colleagues, archives, and manuscripts."
--Benedek Láng, Reviews in History
"A pithy and intellectually enriching exploration, not of a strange intellectual outlier, but of a profoundly imaginative and quintessentially medieval mind."
--Frank Klaassen, University of Saskatchewan
"Fanger's book deeply complicates our understanding of late medieval ritual magic, while opening up new vistas on monastic devotional practices. It is a must-read for scholars of medieval religion as well as for those working on the history of magic."
--Laura Ackerman Smoller, Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft
"[Rewriting Magic] represents a refreshingly honest account of a scholar's attempt to overcome the problem of understanding and analysing a form of medieval religiosity that relied upon lived experience."
--Michael D. Barbezat, Parergon
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