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Old 05-10-2022, 03:02 AM   #10
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Default Re: Authentic medieval/Renaissance European magic, more or less

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Originally Posted by Polydamas View Post
Chapters 860-865 of the Journal of a Bourgeois of Paris describe the deeds of a suspected antichrist who studied at the University of Paris in 1445. He knew all seven liberal arts, was doctor of all four disciplines (medicine, civil law, canon law, theology), and all languages, and painting, and singing, and playing instruments, and fencing with the two-handed sword, and how could anyone learn all that if they lived to be a hundred?
At the start of Goethe's Faust, the protagonist lists most of those disciplines as ones he has mastered.
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