Episode 151: By the Book (ad-free)

For a very long time, people have believed that our world is filled with magic. Secret knowledge and hidden truths that we can use to unlock power and privilege. It’s a belief that’s taken all shapes and forms, but there’s one common thread tying it all together: books.

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Further Reading

1. “Beheads Farm Worker With Ax,” The Daily Banner (Cambridge, Maryland), June 9, 1916, p. 4.
2. J. Wood Brown, An Enquiry into the Life and Legend of Michael Scot (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1897). 
3. Owen Davies, Grimoires: A History of Magic Books (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).
4. Owen Davies, “Owen Davies’ Top 10 Grimoires,” The Guardian, 4/8/2009, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/apr/08/history.
5. Owen Davies, Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History (London: Hambledon Continuum, 2003).
6. Glenn M. Edwards, “The Two Redactions of Michael Scot’s ‘Liber Introductorius,’” Traditio 41 (1985), pp. 329-340.
7. Charles H. Haskins, “The ‘Alchemy’ Ascribed to Michael Scot,’ Isis 10, no. 2 (June 1928), pp. 350-59. 
8. Charles H. Haskins,“Michael Scot and Frederick II,” Isis 4, n. 2 (Oct. 1921), pp. 250-275.
9. Charles H. Haskins, Studies in the History of Medieval Science (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1924).
10. Urban T. Holmes, Jr., Daily Living in the Twelfth Century: Based on the Observations of Alexander Neckam in London and Paris (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1952).
11. John Kalbfleisch, “In 1682 Montreal, an Accused Witch Escaped Sanction,” Montreal Gazette, 6/25/2016, https://www.newspapers.com/image/494115134/?terms=montreal%2Bwitch%2Blamarque.
12. Kay, Richard. “The Spare Ribs of Dante’s Michael Scot.” Dante Studies 103 (1985), pp. 1-14.
13. James Kritzeck, “The School of Toledo,” in Peter the Venerable and Islam, (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1964), pp. 51-55.
14. Jonathan Lyons, The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization (New York: Bloomsbury, 2009).
15. Lucy K. Pick, “Michael Scot in Toledo: ‘Natura Naturans’ and the Hierarchy of Being.” Traditio, 53 (1998), pp. 93-116. 
16. T.C. Scott and P. Marketos, “Michael Scot,” http://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Scot.html.
17. Lynn Thorndike, A History of Magic and Experimental Science During the First Thirteen Centuries of our Era. Vol. 2 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1923).
18. Travis Zadeh, “Magic, Marvel, and Miracle in Early Islamic Thought,” in The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West: From Antiquity to the Present, Edited by David J. Collins, S.J. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. 235-267.
19. “A Modern Sorceress,” St. Louis Globe-Democrat (St. Louis, Missouri) March 30, 1879, p. 14.
20. “The Gold Diggers Still At Work,” Intelligencer Journal (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), 05 Mar 1879, p. 3.
21. “Lancaster County Witch Story,” Reading Times (Reading, Pennsylvania), 28 Mar 1879, p. 2