John of Morigny
A research portal on the Benedictine monk, visionary, and rewriter of condemned magic (fl. c. 1300–1323), grounded in Claire Fanger's scholarship
John of Morigny was a fourteenth-century Benedictine monk who experimented with the condemned ritual art called the ars notoria, was denounced for it, and responded not by abandoning the practice but by rewriting it — composing the Liber florum celestis doctrine ("Flowers of Heavenly Teaching"), a purified system he claimed was authorized by visions of the Virgin Mary. Condemned and burned at Paris in 1323, his book nonetheless survived in over twenty manuscripts and was rediscovered by modern scholarship only in the 1990s.
Phase 1 of this portal: 7 figures, 5 concepts,
3 texts, 17 timeline events, 3 historiographical
arguments, 8 document summaries — all grounded in a direct, page-cited reading of
Claire Fanger's Rewriting Magic and Invoking Angels, and the wider medieval-magic scholarship
around them. See About for what's verified and what's still on the research queue.