Medicine, Religion, and Magic in Early Stuart England: Richard Napier's Medical Practice
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Medicine, Religion, and Magic in Early Stuart England

Richard Napier's Medical Practice

By
Ofer Hadass
Ofer Hadass
2018 • 232 pages

Explores the work of the astrologer-physician and Anglican rector Richard Napier (1559-1634). Examines Napier's medical and magical practices in their larger context and shows how the physician incorporated both astral and ritual magic into his medicine.

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Magic in History

Magic in History is a 14-book series with 14 released primary works first released in 1958 with contributions by D.P. Walker, Frank Klaassen, and Juris Lidaka.

Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic
Battling Demons: Witchcraft, Heresy, and Reform in the Late Middle Ages
Icons of Power: Ritual Practices in Late Antiquity
Binding Words: Textual Amulets in the Middle Ages
Strange Revelations: Magic, Poison, and Sacrilege in Louis XIV's France
Alchemical Belief: Occultism in the Religious Culture of Early Modern England
The Transformations of Magic: Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance
Magic in the Cloister: Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe
Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization
Medicine, Religion, and Magic in Early Stuart England: Richard Napier's Medical Practice
The Long Life of Magical Objects: A Study in the Solomonic Tradition

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