Ars Notoria: Prayer, Memory, Knowledge, and Controversy
A detailed, source-conscious guide to the medieval notory art of prayers, figures, and aspirations to accelerated learning, with manuscript history, symbolic analysis, later reception, common…
Lemegeton
Ars Paulina Explained: Hours, Zodiac, and Angelic Order
A detailed, source-conscious guide to the third book of the Lemegeton and its angelic systems of hours, zodiacal degrees, and personal celestial relationships, with manuscript…
Ars Theurgia-Goetia Explained: Aerial Spirits and Directions
A detailed, source-conscious guide to the second book of the Lemegeton and its elaborate directional map of aerial princes and ministers, with manuscript history, symbolic…
The Four Cardinal Kings of the Goetia
A detailed, source-conscious guide to the directional kings and the unstable ways names and jurisdictions appear across Solomonic sources, with manuscript history, symbolic analysis, later…
Kings, Dukes, Princes, Marquises, Presidents, and Earls in the Goetia
A detailed, source-conscious guide to the political vocabulary used to classify spirits and its relationship to early modern authority, with manuscript history, symbolic analysis, later…
Ars Goetia: History, Structure, and Misconceptions
A detailed, source-conscious guide to the first book of the Lemegeton and its catalogue of seventy-two ranked spirits, with manuscript history, symbolic analysis, later reception,…
The Lesser Key of Solomon Explained: Five Books and a Modern Reputation
A detailed, source-conscious guide to the seventeenth-century compilation known as the Lemegeton and the five books later associated with it, with manuscript history, symbolic analysis,…