Magna Carta from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Time. About John Baker’s book «Reinvention of Magna Carta 1216-1616». Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. XLIX + 570 p.
Ordinary readers would welcome this new translation as one of many publications rendering a medieval Latin into modern English. All those efforts are certainly most welcome and necessary to maintain the scholarly and pragmatic-didactic approach to Medieval Studies. However, the Picatrix
represents a unique magical treatise which every European pre-modern magician consulted and which enjoyed greatest respect for its universal relevance. Many contributors to the edited volume Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time, ed. by Albrecht Classen (2018)
refer to the Picatrix, acknowledging it as a most important source for magic throughout the entire pre-modern world.
A multidisciplinary approach to document and analyze seismic protection techniques in Mugello from the Middle Ages to Early Modern Time