‘The magi were tricksters and con artists, unemployed students or priests, members of monastic orders, artists and occultists who shared the belief that knowledge could transform the world. They were the crucible in ...
John Gray, New Statesman
‘Grafton is a learned cultural historian who for decades has studied how people came to understand themselves through gathered knowledge in what we might call the first information age in Europe – the period between ...
Erica Wagner, Sunday Times
‘A serious yet accessible account of learned magic’
Dennis Duncan, Guardian
‘The magi were tricksters and con artists, unemployed students or priests, members of monastic orders, artists and occultists who shared the belief that knowledge could transform the world. They were the crucible in ...
John Gray, New Statesman
‘Grafton is a learned cultural historian who for decades has studied how people came to understand themselves through gathered knowledge in what we might call the first information age in Europe – the period between ...
Erica Wagner, Sunday Times
‘A serious yet accessible account of learned magic’
Dennis Duncan, Guardian
‘The magi were tricksters and con artists, unemployed students or priests, members of monastic orders, artists and occultists who shared the belief that knowledge could transform the world. They were the crucible in ...
John Gray, New Statesman
‘Grafton is a learned cultural historian who for decades has studied how people came to understand themselves through gathered knowledge in what we might call the first information age in Europe – the period between ...
Erica Wagner, Sunday Times
‘A serious yet accessible account of learned magic’