Julien Véronèse
Julien Véronèse is the field's leading specialist on the ars notoria as a ritual and textual tradition in its own right — the specific art of prayer, figure-contemplation, and verba ignota (unknown words) that John of Morigny practiced as a young man before coming to regard it as demonically contaminated and rewriting it into the Liber florum. Fanger's preface to Rewriting Magic names him among the colleagues whose "writings remain an ongoing point of reference for my own work," alongside Frank Klaassen, Benedek Láng, and Sophie Page (Rewriting Magic, p.xi).
Véronèse's standalone monographs and critical editions of the ars notoria corpus (published primarily in French) were not available to this portal's author. However, his essay "Magic, Theurgy, and Spirituality in the Medieval Ritual of the Ars notoria" — translated into English by Fanger herself — opens her edited volume Invoking Angels: Theurgic Ideas and Practices, Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries (Penn State UP, 2012), beginning at p.37. This chapter makes his own direct scholarly voice on the ars notoria tradition readable within this portal's corpus, even where his French-language monographs remain out of reach — a genuine, if partial, closing of what would otherwise be a real gap in this portal's source access. See Ars Notoria for the concept entry this essay substantially informs.
Literature
- Véronèse, Julien. "Magic, Theurgy, and Spirituality in the Medieval Ritual of the Ars notoria." Trans. Claire Fanger. In Fanger, ed., Invoking Angels. Penn State University Press, 2012, ch. 1.
Sources
- Fanger, Claire (ed.), Invoking Angels: Theurgic Ideas and Practices, Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries (2012), p.ch.1, p.37-44 — Ars notoria essay in translation.
Literature
- Fanger, Claire, ed. Invoking Angels. Penn State University Press, 2012.