The View From Kalamazoo

Google Print (the immense project to digitize the holdings at Standofrd and U of M, as well as part of the collections of Oxford’s Bodleian, NYPL, and Harvard and some books in print) is up and running – Consider this search I ran on the last name of a single author:

It includes his own work, of course, and references from a variety of authors to his work – here is the text from first page (1-10 of 2020 pages!):

Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer’s Manual of the Fifteenth Century
by Richard Kieckhefer – History – 1998 – 392 pages
Page 19 – … INTRODUCTION 19 15 On this ‘clerical underworld’ see Richard Kieckhefer, Magic
is the …
[ 13 results from this book ]

Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Middle Ages
by Karen Jolly, Catharina Raudvere, Edward Peters – History – 2002
Page 22 – … Astrologers and diviners in particular became common in the courts of
twelfth-century rulers (Kieckhefer 1990: 97). In the twelfth and thirteenth …
[ 41 results from this book ]

Theology in Stone: Church Architecture from Byzantium to Berkeley
by Richard Kieckhefer – Architecture – 2003 – 384 pages
… In Theology in Stone , Richard Kieckhefer seeks to help both sides move beyond
… Kieckhefer begins with four chapters on the basic elements of church …
[ 22 results from this book ]

Magic in the Middle Ages
by Richard Kieckhefer – History – 2000 – 236 pages
KIECKHEFER.
[ 10 results from this book ]

Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic
edited by Claire Fanger, Richard Kieckhefer, Nicholas Watson – Body, Mind & Spirit – 1998 – 308 pages
Page xiv – … mysticism which are discussed by Richard Kieckhefer later in this volume, but
also on its own account, because it takes a far more explicit and even …
[ 33 results from this book ]

The Witchcraft Reader
edited by Darren Oldridge – Body, Mind & Spirit – 2001 – 448 pages
Page 22 – … Richard Kieckhefer shows in Chapter 1 that the modern concept of witchcraft
developed gradually in the course of the fifteenth century. … Kieckhefer’s …
[ 15 results from this book ]

Schools of Asceticism: Ideology and Organization in Medieval Religious Communities
by Lutz F Kaebler, Lutz Kaelber – History – 1998 – 256 pages
Page 107 – … (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982); Richard Kieckhefer, Magic in
the Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 33—42. …
[ 7 results from this book ]

Nontarget Effects of Biological Control
by Peter A Follett – Technology – 1999
Page 129 – community structure (Elliott and Kieckhefer I … its range and is now widely
distributed in North America (Schaefer et al. 1987, Elliott and Kieckhefer 1 …
[ 12 results from this book ]

Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700: A Documentary History
edited by Alan Charles Kors, Edward Peters – History – 2000 – 451 pages
Page 12 – … Richard Kieckhefer, “The Holy and the Unholy: Sainthood, Witchcraft, and Magic
in Late Medieval Europe,” Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 24 …
[ 16 results from this book ]

Demonology, Religion, and Witchcraft: Woolf, Baldwin, Kingston, and Winterson
Body, Mind & Spirit – 2003 – 350 pages
Page 148 – … : Deciphering the Witches’ Sabbath (New York: Pantheon, 1991); Richard
Kieckhefer, European Witch Trials: Their Foundations in Popular and Learned …

Although clearly the focus is commercial, it’s still a useful tool for sifting through references to figure out, say, what book to search out through a used book store or what to attempt to get from ILL. The University Presses are still bitching. You can only look at 5 pages – the page hit, and two before and after that hit – which does not leave it infinitely useful, and it appears impossible to do a highlight and copy to quote passages (at least with what I’m using). Still, it’s handy.