Open Access Journal: The Societas Magica Newsletter

[First posted in AWOL 14 December 2011, updated 7 May 2019]

The Societas Magica Newsletter

The Societas Magica is an organization dedicated to furthering communication and exchange among scholars interested in the study of magic, both in the positive contexts of its expression as an area of necessary knowledge or religious practice (as in early modern occultism and contemporary paganism), and in its negative contexts as the substance of an accusation or condemnation (as in sorcery trials, and many philosophical and theological accounts, both early and late). The interests of our membership include, but are not limited to, the history and sociology of magic; theological, and intellectual apprehensions of magic; practices and theories of magic; and objects, artifacts and texts either qualified as magical by their creators, or forming the substance of an accusation of magic by others.

	Spring_2017_Issue_35 File Size : (396.6 Kbytes)		Magic Manuscripts from Somers and Jekyll in the Collections of the British Library László Sándor Chardonnens
	Fall_2016_Issue_34 File Size : (1026.5 Kbytes)		Notes on the Picatrix: Non- Heteronormative Sex, and Forthcoming Translation Daniel Attrell and David Porreca
	Spring_2016_Issue_33 File Size : (360.1 Kbytes)		Israel’s Name at the Site of the Circumcision: Eros and Magic in the Shiur Qomah Marla Segol
	Spring_2015_Issue_32 File Size : (862.5 Kbytes)		Women, Ritual, Power, and Mysticism in the Testament of Job Rebecca Lesses
	Fall_2014_Issue_31 File Size : (1114.6 Kbytes)		Ciphers and Secrecy Among the Alchemists: A Preliminary Report Agnieszka Rec
	Spring_2014_Issue_30 File Size : (863.5 Kbytes)		Warding Off Doom in Mesopotamia and the Bible Marian Broida
	Fall_2013_Issue_29 File Size : (876.8 Kbytes)		Objects as Demonic Subjects in Spiritual Warfare Handbooks Sean McCloud
	Spring_2013_Issue_28 File Size : (884.2 Kbytes)		A Report on Current Magical and Esoteric Blogs Laura Mitchell
	Spring_2012_Issue_27 File Size : (1223.0 Kbytes)		Bewitched in their privities: Medical Responses to Infertility Witchcraft in Early Modern England Jennifer Evans
	Fall_2011_Issue_26 File Size : (599.0 Kbytes)		Purification in the Papyrae Graecae Magicae Jonathan Shen
	Spring_2011_Issue_25 File Size : (1029.0 Kbytes)		Magic as the Basis for Social Cohesion in pre-Islamic Mesopotamia Siam Bhayro
	Fall_2010_Issue_24 File Size : (555.0 Kbytes)		Some Observations on Jewish Love Magic: The Importance of Cultural Specificity Ortal-Paz Saar
	Spring_2010_Issue_23 File Size : (1062.0 Kbytes)		Clerical Magic in Icelandic Folklore Thomas B. de Mayo
	Fall_2009_Issue_22 File Size : (847.0 Kbytes)		Developing a Curriculum on the History of Esotericism and Magic in Colombia Johann F.W. Hasler
	Spring_2009_Issue_21 File Size : (1119.0 Kbytes)		Magical Letters, Mystical Planets: Magic, Theosophy, and Astrology in the Sefer Yetsirah and two of its Tenth-century Commentaries Marla Segol
	Fall_2008_Issue_20 File Size : (468.0 Kbytes)		Theses de magia Marco Pasi
	Fall_2007_Issue_18 File Size : (1194.0 Kbytes)		Up on the Roof: Understanding an Anglo-Saxon Healing Practice K. A. Laity
	Spring_2007_Issue_17 File Size : (1420.0 Kbytes)		The Key of Solomon: Toward a Typology of the Manuscripts Robert Mathiesen
	Fall_2006_Issue_16 File Size : (1211.0 Kbytes)		Real, Apparent and Illusory Necromancy: Lamp Experiments and Historical Perceptions of Experimental Knowledge Robert Goulding
	Spring_2006_Issue_15 File Size : (2676.0 Kbytes)		“Pictures passing before the mind’s eye”: the Tarot, the Order of the Golden Dawn, and William Butler Yeats’s Poetry Anke Timmermann
	Fall_2005_Issue_14 File Size : (4245.0 Kbytes)		Approaches To Teaching the History, Practice, and Material Culture of Magic: A Roundtable on Pedagogy Amelia Carr
	Fall_2004_Issue_13 File Size : (2114.0 Kbytes)		Magic and Impotence in the Middle Ages Catherine Rider
	Spring_2004_Issue_12 File Size : (838.0 Kbytes)		What is and is not Magic: the case of Anglo-Saxon Prognostics Roy M. Liuzza
	Fall_2003_Issue_11 File Size : (1886.0 Kbytes)		Islamic Magical Texts vs. Magical Artefacts Emilie Savage-Smith
	Spring_2003_Issue_10 File Size : (799.0 Kbytes)		A Magic All Its Own Michael D. Swartz
	Summer_2002_Issue_9 File Size : (1307.0 Kbytes)		John of Morigny's Liber Visionum and a Royal Prayer Book from Poland Claire Fanger and Benedek Láng
	SMN_Winter_2001_Issue_8 File Size : (2125.0 Kbytes)		Images of Desire Geoffrey McVey
	Spring_2001_Issue_7 File Size : (412.0 Kbytes)		Magic in the Cloister Sophie Page
	Fall_2000_Issue_6 File Size : (1400.0 Kbytes)		Encounters with Amulets Peter Murray Jones
	Fall_1998_Issue_5 File Size : (291.0 Kbytes)		Issue on Pedagogy Carol Menning
	Fall_1997_Issue_4 File Size : (49.0 Kbytes)		The Warburg Institute: History and Current Activities Will F. Ryan
	Fall_1996_Issue_3 File Size : (48.0 Kbytes)		Sessions and Papers on magic at Kalamazoo Claire Fanger
	Spring_1996_Issue_2 File Size : (45.0 Kbytes)		A Report on Recent Work on Charms Lea Olson
	Fall_1995_Issue_1 File Size : (43.0 Kbytes)		Introduction of Societas Magica Newsletter Richard Kieckhefer

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