Sharon Hubbs Wright is Professor of History at St. Thomas More College and Director of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. She is the coauthor, along with Frank Klaassen, of The Magic of Rogues: Necromancers in Early Tudor England, also published by Penn State University Press. Frank Klaassen is Professor of History at the University of Sakatchewan. He is the author of Making Magic in Elizabethan England: Two Early Modern Vernacular Books of Magic and the award-winning The Transformations of Magic: Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance, both published by Penn State University Press.
The provision of these original sources is a gift to historians and their students but also to modern magicians seeking working materials, and the authors' analyses provide genuinely new insights into the nature of late medieval and early modern English magical practice. -Ronald Hutton, author of The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present