Svartkonstböcker: A Compendium of the Swedish Black Art Book Tradition


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Svartkonstb cker is a fully revised edition of Dr Johnson's 2010 PhD Thesis Tidebast och V ndelrot: Magical Representations in the Swedish Black Art Book Tradition, featuring a thorough, path-breaking study of the black art book tradition in Sweden, as well as English translations of 35 Swedish black art books ranging from the 1690s to the 1940s, including over 1900 spells and a robust index.

The late Dr Johnson always wished that his work would see print publication in its entirety. Other publishers have offered to produce this work in two volumes, prioritizing the spells in the black art books over the scholarly apparatus that contextualizes them. Here Revelore presents the work in full, comprising over 650 pages of material. Minor errors from the PhD manuscript have been rectified, and archival images of the characters, sigils, and illustrations have been restored in high fidelity. This is the definitive source work for the Swedish magical corpus of black art books.



Author: Thomas K. Johnson
Publisher: Revelore Press
Published: 09/21/2019
Pages: 666
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.55lbs
Size: 9.80h x 7.00w x 1.50d
ISBN13: 9781947544222
ISBN10: 1947544225
BISAC Categories:
- Body, Mind & Spirit | Occultism
- Social Science | Folklore & Mythology

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