Andrea Franchetto: Rituals of Perceptual Presence: Space, Material Culture, and Efficacy in Late-Medieval Learned Magic
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Book review of Andrea Franchetto: Rituals of Perceptual Presence: Space, Material Culture, and Efficacy in Late-Medieval Learned Magic. Stockholm: Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Stockholm University, 2024. 316 pp.
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