History

Lecturer

Office: 306, 24 Gordon Square
Office hour: Thursday 3-4 pm
External phone: 020 7679 3619
Internal phone: 33619
E-mail: sophie.page@ucl.ac.uk

I work in the area of European medieval magic and astrology, especially in relation to orthodox religion, natural philosophy, medicine and cosmology. I am also interested in the imagery of medieval magic, especially diagrams, and the history of animals in the Middle Ages. I teach a general course on European history between 1000 and 1500, a more specialist, group 3, course on 'Animals and the Imagination in the Middle Ages' and an MA module on 'Magic in the Middle Ages'.

Areas of Research Supervision: Medieval cultural history, especially the occult sciences (magic, astrology and alchemy) and their relationships to mainstream religion, natural philosophy, medicine and cosmology; the history of animals.

Theses Currently Supervised:

 -Gold and the Medival Art Nature Debate

Theses Previously Supervised:

 -Pet-keeping and Gender in the Middle Ages

Select Publications

-'Uplifting Souls: The Liber de essentia spirituum and the Liber Razielis', in C. Fanger, ed., Invoking Angels: Theurgic Ideas and Practices, Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries (2012)

-'Les sacrifices d'animaux dans le Picatrix latin et d'autres textes de magie médiévale' in J.P. Boudet, ed., Picatrix. Image et magie, Paris, 2011

- Speaking with Spirits in Medieval Magic Texts' in J. Raymond, ed., Conversations with Angels. Essays towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700 (2011)

- The Unorthodox Imagination in Late Medieval Britain, editor. (2010)

- 'Magic and the Pursuit of Wisdom: the "familiar" spirit in the Liber Theysolius la Corónica, 36(1), (2007) 41 - 70

- 'Good Creation and Demonic Illusions: the Medieval Universe of Creatures', in L. kalof and B. Resl (eds) A Cultural History of Animals: vol. 2 The Medieval Age (1000 - 1400), (2007) 27 - 57

- 'Image - Magic Texts and a Platonic Cosmology at St Augustine's, Canterbury, in the late middle ages', in C. Burnett and W.F. Ryan, eds, Magic and the Classical Tradition (2006)

- Magic in Medieval Manuscripts (2004)

- 'Hermetic magic texts in a monastic context', in P. Lucentini, I. Parri and V. P. Compagni (eds) Hermeticism from Late Antiqity to Humanism. La tradizione ermetica dal mondo tardo-antico all'umanismo, (2004) 535 - 544 

- Astrology in medieval manuscripts (2002)

- 'Richard Trewythian and the uses of astrology in late Medieval England', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 64 (2001) 193 - 228

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