Medieval Perceptions of Magic, Science, and the Natural World

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements "Introduction," by Carolina Escobar-Vargas Chapter 1: "Rhythms of the (Super)Natural World: Timing Instructions in Early Medieval Medical Recipes," by Claire Burridge Chapter 2: "Time and Tide: The Creation of a Sea Travel Network in the Severn Region in the Early Middle Ages," by Caroline Bourne Chapter 3: "Astral Forces and Arthurian Dragons in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae," by Humma Mouzam Chapter 4: "Natural and Non-Natural: Weather, Seasons, and Place in the Medicine of Constantine of Africa," by Anne Jeavons Chapter 5: "Matthew Paris, William of Conches, and the Use of Diagrams to Observe the World," by Judith Collard Chapter 6: "Astrology: Science or Divination? The Example of Astro-Meteorology," by Anne Lawrence-Mathers Chapter 7: "Magic and Science in the Middle Ages: The Building of the Boundaries between Natural Magic and Necromancy, ca. 1230-ca. 1310," by Sebastià Giralt Chapter 8: "Witchcraft and Weather: The Problem of Magical Control of the Weather," by Carolina Escobar-Vargas Chapter 9: "The Boundaries of Magic and Medicine in Medieval Theology," by Victoria Burns-Price Chapter 10: "Between Natural and Demonic? Onomantic Divination in the Later Middle Ages," by Joanne Edge Chapter 11: "Late-Medieval Brontologies: Popular Superstition or Astrological Medical Guide?," by Janet Walls Chapter 12: "Wonder and Wonder Working in Middle English Romance: The Prose Merlin," by Victoria Flood Chapter 13: "Alchemical Poetry, Alchemical Practice," by Zachary Matus Chapter 14: "Encountering the Wonder in Nature: The Science of the Sacred in the Early-Modern Construction of the Natural World," by Helen Parish Index