As of May, 2006, the Societas Magica is pleased to announce its affiliation with a new journal, Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft issued by the University of Pennsylvania Press. A serious, rigorously peer-reviewed scholarly journal, Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft will draw from a broad spectrum of perspectives, methods, and disciplines, offering the widest possible geographical scope and chronological range, from prehistory to the modern era and from the Old World to the New. In addition to original research, issues will include book reviews, editorials, and lists of newly published work. Members of the Societas may choose to have journal subscriptions included as part of the Societas Magica dues.

The journal is now accepting submissions. Please send all manuscripts for consideration, preferably in Microsoft Word format, to:

Michael D. Bailey
Iowa State University
Department of History
603 Ross Hall
Ames, IA 50011
USA
mdbailey@iastate.edu

For more information about the journal, including more detailed submission guidelines, please visit the University of Pennsylvania Press website at magic.pennpress.org

BOOKS

Since 1998, the Societas Magica has sponsored the Magic in History series, put out by Pennsylvania State University Press www.psupress.org/books/book_series.html#magic, which explores the role magic and the occult have played in European culture, religion, science, and politics. Titles in the series bring the resources of cultural, literary, and social history to bear on the history of the magic arts, and contribute towards an understanding of why the theory and practice of magic have elicited fascination at every level of society. Volumes include reprints of important works on magic, editions and translation of primary texts, and significant new research in the field.

Members of the Societas Magica are entitled to a 20% discount on all books in the Magic in History series.

The Societas Magica welcomes queries from scholars working on editions, translations or other books that might be suitable for publication in the Magic in History series. Queries may be directed to Richard Kieckhefer or Claire Fanger.

Currently in print:

Bailey, Michael D.: Battling Demons: Witchcraft, Heresy, and Reform in the Late Middle Ages

Butler, Elizabeth M.: The Fortunes of Faust, and Ritual Magic

Fanger, Claire: Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic

Janowitz, Naomi: Icons of Power: Ritual Practices in Late Antiquity

Kieckhefer, Richard: Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century

Noegel, Scott, Joel Walker, and Brannon Wheeler: Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World

Ryan, W. F.: The Bathhouse at Midnight: An Historical Survey of Magic and Divination in Russia

Skemer, Don C.: Binding Words: Textual Amulets in the Middle Ages

Walker, D. P.: Spiritual and Demonic Magic: From Ficino to Campanella


Updated: March 2, 2006