Persons

Ninth-century astrologer whose works shaped Latin astrology and the learned background for astral magic and image theory.

Twelfth-century translator and natural philosopher whose Arabic-Latin learning helped shape Latin debates about astrology, natural causality, and experiment.

Historian of medieval learned culture, astrology, medicine, and courtly/scientific contexts relevant to occult knowledge.

Thirteenth-century Dominican philosopher whose authority shaped scholastic natural philosophy, astrology, minerals, animals, and debates over occult properties.

Ancient sage whose name became attached to medieval ritual and talismanic traditions.

Physician and religious writer whose attributed corpus became entangled with medical, alchemical, and astrological materials.

Late antique Christian theologian whose account of demons, signs, superstition, and illicit curiosity shaped medieval classifications of magic.

Central European manuscript libraries, learned magic, and the codicological history of ritual texts.

Twelfth-century intellectual associated with cosmological and astrological learning in the Latin schools, important for the learned background of celestial influence.

Historian of medieval knowledge, marvels, nature, and the conceptual edges of natural and occult causality.

Medieval magic, medicine, fertility, charms, and pastoral contexts.

Fourteenth-century astrologer and poet whose condemnation and execution made him a key figure in debates over astrology, determinism, and forbidden knowledge.

Historian of Arabic-Latin transmission, astrology, natural philosophy, and occult sciences in the medieval Latin West.

Medieval ritual magic, angelic theurgy, and visionary autobiographical writing.

Translator and scholar of the Latin Picatrix and astral magic.

Historian of exact sciences, astrology, and astral magic whose work is essential for Arabic, Greek, Sanskrit, and Latin transmission histories.

Medieval Latin Hermetica, Picatrix studies, and transmission of Arabic astral magic.

Manuscript scholar whose work on textual amulets and written protection is central for charms and apotropaic writing.

Scholar of exorcism, liturgy, ritual authority, and the borderlands of religious and magical practice.

Manuscript culture and transformations of learned magic in late medieval and early modern England.

Attributed authorial figure attached to the Sworn Book of Honorius and traditions of angelic ritual magic.

Twelfth-century theologian whose classifications of arts, knowledge, and illicit curiosity form part of the scholastic background for later treatments of magic.

Early medieval encyclopedist whose etymological classifications of magic, divination, and pagan learning shaped later reference traditions.

Historian of magic, learned culture, and intellectual history whose work connects medieval classifications to Renaissance magic.

Historian of medieval astrology, divination, learned magic, and manuscript transmission in the Latin West.

Fifteenth-century Bavarian physician and author of advice literature on forbidden arts, witchcraft, and princely governance.

Fourteenth-century Benedictine monk whose visionary autobiography and ritual book reworked the Ars Notoria in Marian and monastic terms.

Twelfth-century cleric whose critique of courtly divination and occult practices is important for earlier medieval moral classification.

Scholar of ritual magic, the Ars Notoria, and manuscript traditions of angelic and learned ritual practice.

Scholar of Jewish, Christian, and ritual magic traditions, including Solomonic and angelological transmission.

Scholar of charms, healing prayers, and vernacular ritual language in medieval manuscript contexts.

Early twentieth-century historian whose multi-volume history made magic and experimental science a continuous object of medieval intellectual history.

Medieval religion, superstition, witchcraft, and magic as contested categories.

Thirteenth-century translator, astrologer, and court intellectual associated with Arabic-Latin science and later magical reputation.

Historian of astral image theory, scholastic natural philosophy, and the boundary between licit and illicit image practices.

Fourteenth-century philosopher and bishop whose criticism of astrology and divination belongs to late medieval debates over celestial influence.

Historian of astrology, magic, scholastic debates, and the Speculum astronomiae tradition.

Twelfth-century theologian whose discussions of divination and astrology belong to earlier scholastic attempts to delimit illicit knowledge.

Italian physician and philosopher associated with astrology, astral causality, and later magical attributions.

Angelic authority associated with the Liber Razielis and related Jewish and Latin traditions of revealed esoteric knowledge.

Learned magic, necromancy, and the social history of medieval ritual texts.

Scholar of ritual magic manuscripts and Solomonic textual traditions, especially relevant to Ars Notoria and grimoire transmission.

Thirteenth-century Franciscan philosopher whose discussions of experiment, language, optics, astrology, and natural powers are central to medieval debates over knowledge and magic.

Biblical king whose attributed authority structures major medieval and early modern traditions of spirit command, talismanic lore, and ritual experiment.

Monastic, clerical, and manuscript contexts for medieval occult learning.

Ninth-century Sabian scholar associated in Latin reception with astral image theory.

Attributed or textual authority associated with the Liber Theysolius and traditions concerning familiar spirits and wisdom.

Thirteenth-century Dominican theologian whose discussions of demons, superstition, divination, and illicit pact shaped later scholastic classifications of magic.

Late medieval jurist and author associated with learned discussion of witchcraft and demonic magic.

Historian of early medieval religion and magic whose work shaped debates about Christianization, pastoral care, and magical survivals.

Thirteenth-century bishop and theologian whose treatment of demons, image magic, and illicit ritual is central to medieval demonological classification.

Arabic philosopher associated in Latin reception with De radiis and theories of rays, causality, words, and celestial influence.