Glamorous Sorcery: Magic and Literacy in the High Middle Ages

by David Rollo

University of Minnesota Press, 2000

Cloth: 978-0-8166-3546-7

Library of Congress Classification PA8045.E5R65 2000

Dewey Decimal Classification 478.0308






1. William of Malmesbury: Magic and Prestige
2. Geoffrey of Monmouth and John of Salisbury:
   Themes of Credulity                                     32
3. Benoit de Sainte-Maure: Magic and Vernacular Fiction   57
4. William FitzStephen, Richard FitzNigel,
   Benoit de Sainte-Maure: Bureaucratic Power and
   Fantasies of Literate Control                           97
5. Gerald of Wales: Writing for the Crowned Ass of England  I22
Conclusion                                             157
Notes                                                  173
Index                                                  225

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