Associate Professor of History, University of Saskatchewan
Frank Klaassen (PhD Toronto) is author of The Transformations of Magic: Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance (Penn State University Press, 2012), and Making Magic in Elizabethan England (Penn State University Press, forthcoming). He is currently completing The Magic of Rogues co-authored with Sharon Wright. His numerous articles concern various aspects of magic in the late middle ages and early modern period, focussing in particular on manuscript evidence.
Hello magic and witchcraft, goodbye Enlightenment
Oct 31, 2018 13:13 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
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