2023 1st Edtn Ltd Edtn 143/333 Inscribed; Coloured Signed by Author(s) PSEUDOMONARCHIA DAEMONUM By Johann Weyer / Paul Summers Young Like New

2023 1st Edition , Inscribed; Coloured
PSEUDOMONARCHIA DAEMONUM
Kingdom of the Spirits
By Johann Weyer / Paul Summers Young
Paul Summers Young has worked on a number of projects with Black Letter Press, including a four-volume translation of Agrippa, and a new edition of Giambattista Della Porta's Natural Magick.

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Format: Hardcover,
Language: English
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Published By: Black Letter Press, Germany

duodecimo or twelvemo (12mo 5 × 7+3⁄8 127 × 187),Pages 229

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Translated, with a commentary by Paul Summers Young
In 1577, Johann Weyer appended a short work titled Pseudomonarchia Daemonum to his treatise on the falsehoods of witchcraft and the magical arts, De Praestigiis Daemonum. Thanks in very large part to Reginald Scot’s inclusion of a translation in his own Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584), this short satirical play upon the Book of Spirits has attained an afterlife Weyer could not have foreseen. Our edition presents the original Latin text with a new Modern English translation by Paul Summers Young, featuring wide-ranging notes contextualizing the work. The appendix includes Scot’s translation, and a new translation of the French Livre des Esperitz, as representative of the genre Weyer drew upon for inspiration. Weyer’s text has cast a long shadow among occultists, but it is also an entertaining work of fantasy in its own right. His world-building and characterization of the various spirits are a delight.



SKU: BTETM0002388
Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg