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It leads the reader through the key ideas and main debates within the field as well as offering in-depth descriptions and analysis of topics such as secularization

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Spiritual and Demonic Magic Thomas Goldsmith and American Indian culturesFirst published by the Warburg Institute in 1958, this book is considered a landmark in Renaissance studies. Whereas most scholars had tended to view magic as a marginal subject, Walker showed that magic was one of the most typical creations of the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Walker takes readers through the magical concerns of some of the greatest thinkers of the Renaissance, from Marsilio Ficino, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, and