Subtle Crafts: Magic and Exploitation in Medieval English Romance

Author / Editor
Saunders, Corinne.

Title
Subtle Crafts: Magic and Exploitation in Medieval English Romance

Published
Laura Ashe, Ivana Djordjević, and Judith Weiss, eds. The Exploitations of Medieval Romance (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010), pp. 108-24.

Description
The use of magic was exploitative and morally ambiguous; however, with the thirteenth-century rise of universities, attitudes shifted: through natural magic and great learning, one could harness natural powers. The "highly intellectual" FranT explores the power of natural (rather than demonic) magic to affect perception and exert a dangerous physical and mental control over others.

Contributor
Ashe, Laura, ed.
Djordjević, Ivana, ed.
Weiss, Judith, ed.

Alternative Title
The Exploitations of Medieval Romance.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale