Apvlei Apologia Sive Pro Se De Magia Liber

Excerpt from Apvlei Apologia, Sive Pro Se De Magia Liber: With Introduction and Commentary As regards the nature of the collaboration, though both editors have revised each other's work, the division of labour may roughly be stated as follows. Professor Butler is responsible for the chapters in the introduction dealing with the life and works of Apuleius and the mss. Of the Apologz'a, for the text and apparatus criticus, and for those portions of the commentary which deal with textual questions and the subject-matter in' general. Mr. Owen is responsible for the introductory chapter on the style and language of Apuleius and for the notes dealing with those same questions. He is also respon sible for the majority of the notes dealing with passages relating to magic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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"This study looks at a wide range of medieval Englisih romance texts, including the works of Chaucer and Malory, from a broad cultural perspective, to show that while they employ magic in order to create exotic, escapist worlds, they are also grounded in a sense of possibility, and reflect a complex web of inherited and current ideas." --Book Jacket.