Typically studied separately, both types of magic manuscripts include some of the texts that went unprinted during the early modern period because they more easily achieved their desired impact in handwritten form, were inappropriate for the press, or were altogether prohibited. This study draws on a selection of early modern manuscripts that contain magic texts that circulated among either Christians or Moriscos to examine how manuscript texts used in spiritual and magic ways challenge notions of reading. La vida de Cebrià d'Antioquia, un mag que va fer un pacte amb Per bé que en el món no cristià abundaven els bruixots i els nigromants, i que la màgia era severament controlada i fins i tot prohibida per l'autoritat en temps de l'Imperi, a la literatura cristiana tenia un important paper com a representació de l'error en oposició a la veritat dels Apòstols que feien miracles.

Algunes d'aquestes obres expressaven el conflicte entre monoteisme i les pràctiques populars que pretenien controlar el món de la natura a través de la màgia. Mitjançant relats de miracles i màgia, presentaven l'oposició entre veritat i falsedat. Resum: Als inicis del cristianisme, juntament amb les controvèrsies teològiques i la construcció d'un discurs racional, van aparèixer altres narracions en forma d'actes, vides de sants o novel The legend survived in the Middle Ages and probably influenced the myth of Faust. It is a tale of magic and power, where the most important feature is not the conversion and martyrdom of both characters, but the statement that Christ and the sign of the Cross are more powerful than any magic. The life of Cyprian of Antioch, a magician who dealt with the devil, and the pious Justina, who refused his diabolical advances, was popular in Late Antiquity and was rewritten as a poem by the Empress Eudocia in the 5 th century. Although sorcerers and necromancers existed in the non-Christian world, and magic was severely controlled or even forbidden by the authorities in Imperial times, in Christian literature they played an important role as representing error in front of the truth of the Apostles who performed miracles. Some of these expressed the conflict between monotheism and the popular practices which tried to control the world of nature through magic. They dealt with the opposition between truth and falsehood through tales of miracles and magic. In the beginnings of Christianism, together with theological controversies and the construction of a rational discourse, other narratives appeared which took the form of Acts, Lives of Saints or novels.

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