The Romance Of Magic In Courtly Culture Analysis

For chapter five on The Romance of Magic in Courtly Culture conveyed the different abilities that each gemstone possessed. As a man by the name of Richard de Preston owned a sapphire with the capabilities of healing the ailments within the eyes of the human body. In addition, there were rings according to Medieval Europeans that were capable of bringing a person luck or aiding a woman in childbirth. That there were gemstones that could detect poison by profusely sweating as a warning mechanism or provide invincibility to the wearer in combat. There were gemstones that could also perform natural magic by curing epilepsy as a beggar brought a ring to Rome to be sanctified, which bestowed it that ability.
I personally think that the supernatural abilities of the gemstones that were mentioned in the chapter didn’t actually possess any power. The gemstones were probably used to give hope women during
For example, a man named Thomas Norton was an alchemist that went to great lengths to prevent his knowledge from being revealed to the public. As Norton feared that unqualified people would tarnish alchemy if they ever obtained it secrets by creating an infinite amount of gold. Therefore, Norton never recorded his alchemy experiments in writing to prevent his knowledge from falling into the wrong hands. All the information regarding alchemy that Norton had was kept within his mind. Norton believed that alchemy should only be taught verbally to the person that will succeed an alchemist. Moreover, the lecture on Regional Variations – Part I – Scandinavia conveyed Scandinavian witchcraft by depicting the practices of Finnish shaman. For example, Finnish shaman would use witchcraft to heal patients by diagnosing the person’s illness and then would remove the spirit of the disease from the body into a wooden