How have perceptions of magic shaped sexuality, love, and reproduction?
Tag: Love magic
The Bishop’s New Stockings, or The Dangers of Love Magic
Katherine Harvey At some point in the first half of the eleventh century, Archbishop Poppo of Trier (1016-1047) decided to commission a new pair of pontifical stockings. He sent some material to a young canoness who belonged to a nearby religious house; shortly afterwards, he received his new footwear, and decided to try […]