John of Morigny
John of Morigny (end 13th cent. - 14th cent.) was a French Benedictine monk renowned for his work on the form of medieval ritual magic known as the Ars notoria.
Biography
Born in the last quarter of the thirteenth century, John of Morigny began his education at the cathedral school of Chartres. He studied theology and canon law at the University in Orléans. At some point before 1304, he entered the Benedictine Order and became a monk at the abbey of Morigny.
Liber visionum
Between 1304 and 1317 he composed the Liber visionum, an adaptation of the text of ritual magic known as the Ars notoria. Both works direct the reader through a long and detailed series of fasts and prayers that promise, among other things, to give the reader knowledge and improve his memory. According to the Grandes chroniques de France, the Liber visionum was judged heretical by the University of Paris and a copy was publicly burned in 1323.[1]
References
- ↑ Claire Fanger and Nicholas Watson, "The Prologue of John of Morigny's Liber Visionum: Introduction"
Bibliography
Works
- Edition of several manuscripts in Sylvie Barnay, Un moment vécu d'éternité. Histoire médiévale des apparitions mariales (V°-XV° siècles), Thèse, Université de Paris X-Nanterre.
- John of Morigny. "The Prologue to the Liber Visionum." Edited and translated by Claire Fanger and Nicholas Watson.
Scholarship
- Barnay, Sylvie. Le Ciel sur la Terre. Les apparitions de la Vierge au Moyen Âge. Cerf, 2000.
- Véronèse, Julien. L'Ars notoria au Moyen Age. Introduction et édition critique. Florence: Sismel - Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2007.