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Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-80255-0 - History and the Supernatural in Medieval England C. S. Watkins Index More information INDEX absolution crosses 186 n. 54 astrolabe 153, 164, 165, 165 n. 182, 166 n. 184 Adam of Eynsham 54, 79–80, 188–9 astrology 52, 129, 153–60, 156 n. 125, 168–9, on ‘properties of things’ 135–7 229, 233 Adelard of Bath 29–30, 135, 152, 154, 165, appeal at royal court 154–5, 158–9 165 n. 182 and black magic 159–60, 163–8 Adhemar of Chabannes 164 n. 176 in romance literature 155 Aelfric of Eynsham 70, 71, 72 scepticism about 156–7 letter to Wulfsige 71 as ‘science’ 155, 232 letter to Wulfstan of York 71 unacceptable in the ‘modern’ age 142 on miracles 217 Aubrey, earl of Northumberland 160 on ‘properties of things’ 133 Augustine 23, 31 n. 30, 45, 66, 217 Aelfwald, bishop of Sherborne 121 on death and the dead 86 n. 76, 178 n. 28 Ailred of Rievaulx 93, 106 on demons 55, 57, 63, 164–5, 210 Ailsi, vision of 180 on divine signs and knowledge of the future Alan of Lille 131, 192 47, 142, 153 Albertus Magnus 140 on knowledge 23–4, 27, 211, 232 alchemy 129, 134 on magic 130, 139, 164–5 Alcuin 107, 116 on nature and the miraculous 18–19, 134–5, Alexander Neckham 157 135 n. 24, 203, 207, 227 Alexander Stavensby, bishop of Coventry and on paganism 79, 91, 99 Lichfield 132, 161 on phantasms 223 Alfred, king of the West Saxons, ghost of 87 on ‘properties of things’ 133 almsgiving 75, 122, 177, 179, 187 reinterpretations of 213, 222 altar cloths, not to be used in magic 132 Aurillac, Auvergne 165 amulets 113 Ave Maria 74 Andrew of St Victor 28, 213 awenyddion 149–51 angels 56, 59, 63, 75, 116 Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 47, 104 Baldwin fitzGilbert de Clare 43 animal hides, magical properties of 117 n.
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