Print Grimoires and the Democratization of Learned Magic in the Later Early Modern Period: Bricolage Tradition and the Cross-Cultural Transmission of Knowledge

Davies, Owen (2023) Print Grimoires and the Democratization of Learned Magic in the Later Early Modern Period: Bricolage Tradition and the Cross-Cultural Transmission of Knowledge. Entangled Religions, 14 (3): 10440. pp. 1-11.

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The relationship between print and manuscript in the entanglement of 'western learned magic' provides valuable insights regarding the complexity of cultural transmission across societies and social strata. Through exploring the influence over time of two print books containing conjurations, one in English the other French, we can trace how seemingly tenuous relationships reveal unlikely global frames of reference with regard to learned magic.

Item Type	Article
Identification Number	10.46586/er.14.2023.10440
Additional information	© 2023 The Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords	manga, conjuration, grimoires, magic, print culture, religious studies, history
Date Deposited	15 May 2025 15:21
Last Modified	05 Feb 2026 00:13