Introduction: King Solomon's tablets

The Vulgar Tongue: Medieval and Postmedieval Vernacularity

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1-13

  Watson, Nicholas ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (27)

1. See Umberto Eco, The Search for the Perfect Language (see Further Reading, page 257).
2. See David J. Halperin, "The Book of Remedies, the Canonization of the Solomonic Writings, and the Riddle of Pseudo-Eusebius", Jewish Quarterly Review 72(1982):269-92.
3. ARS NOTORIA, QUAM CREATOR ALTISSIMVS Salomoni revelavit, in Cornelius Agrippa, Opera (Lyons: Beringos Fratres, [1620]; republished Landmarks of Science [New York: Readex Microprint, 1964]), 603-60, at 647.
4. Lynn Thorndike in his History of Magic and Experimental Science, 8 vols. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1923-58), 2:279-89.
5. These studies are (1) several essays in Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic, ed. Claire Fanger, Magic in History (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998)
6. Michael Camille, "Visual Art in Two Manuscripts of the Ars Notoria" (110-39);
7. Claire Fanger, "Plundering the Egyptian Treasure: John the Monk's Book of Visions and Its Relation to the Ars Notoria of Solomon" (216-49);
8. Richard Kieckhefer, "The Devil's Contemplatives: The Liber Iuratus, the Liber Visionum, and the Christian Appropriation of Jewish Occultism" (250-65); (2) a pair of essays on the intellectual roots of the Ars: J. DuPèbe, "L" ars notoria' et la polémique sur la divination et la magie", in Divination et controverse religieuse en France au xvie siècle, Cahiers V.-L. Saulnier, 4 (Paris: L'É. N. S. de Jeunes Filles, 1987), 123-34
9. and Jean-Patrice Boudet, "L'Ars Notoria au Moyen Âge: Une résurgence de la théurgie antique?" in La magie: Actes du Colloque international de Montpellier, 25-27 Mars 1999 (Tome iii: Du monde latin au monde contemporain) Seminaire d'étude des mentalités antiques (Montpellier: Universite Paul Valery, 2000), 173-91.
10. For references to condemnations of the text, see Frank Klaassen, "English Manuscripts of Magic, 1350-1500", in Fanger, Conjuring Spirits, 3-31, at 30 n. 44.
11. See Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologica, Secunda secundae 96, art. 1, in vols. 4-12 of Opera omnia, ed. T. M. Zagliara (Rome: Ad Sanctae Sabinae, 1888-1906).
12. Claire Fanger and Nicholas Watson, "John of Morigny, Prologue to Liber Visionum [c. 1304-17]", Esoterica 3(2001):108-217.
13. See Warman Welliver, Dante in Hell (see Further Reading), i.1-8 (esp. 6-7).
14. See Boudet, "L'Ars Notoria au Moyen Age", 174.
15. The Works of John Metham, ed. Hardin Craig, Early English Text Society, Original Series 132 (London: Early English Text Society, 1916), 85, lines 1-11; spellings somewhat regularized.
16. See Ernest Robert Curtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (see Further Reading);
17. Rita Copeland, Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and Translation (see Further Reading).
18. See Dante, De vulgari eloquentia, i.7, which suggests that the dispersal of the Jews brought their possession of Adamic language to an end. For Jewish views regarding the status of Hebrew
19. see Gershom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (New York: Schocken, 1946)
20. and Michael D. Swartz, Scholastic Magic: Ritual and Revelation in Early Jewish Mysticism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996).
21. See references in my "Censorship and Cultural Change"
22. Umberto Eco, "Languages in Paradise", in Serendipities: Language and Lunacy (San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1998), 23-51.
23. Dante establishes the connection between the vernacular and the natural in his long survey of the peoples of Italy and their dialects, De vulgari eloquentia, i.9-15.
24. See, e.g., Richard Firth Green, A Crisis of Truth (see Further Reading).
25. See Jim Rhodes, Poetry Does Theology: Chaucer, Grosseteste, and the Pearl Poet (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001).
26. Vincent Gillespie and Maggie Ross, "The Apophatic Image", in The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England: V, ed. Marion Glasscoe (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1992), 53-77.
27. Paradiso, vol. 5 of The Divine Comedy, ed. and trans. Charles S. Singleton, Bollingen Series 80, 6 vols. (Princeton: Princeton University Press), xxvi.124-38.