Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Love magic as a metaphor for control and admiration. Convivencia, courtly love, and categorizing magic -- Thirteenth-century Alfonso X's interest in Andalusi and Islamic magic. Eucharists as magical chastity belts in Cantiga 104 -- Demons as tools for magical seduction in Cantiga 125 -- Enchanted spaces as sites of melding thirteenth/fourteenth-century knowledge -- Marriage and temptation in the Sulfuric Lake in the Libro del Caballero Zifar -- The devil's seduction of Roboán and his loss of the Fortunate Isles in the Zifar -- Transgressive clerical employment of fourteenth-century go-betweens -- Amorous linguistic enchantments in Libro de buen amor -- Sephardi and Andalusi influences in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century mediators. Match-maker Celestina's pantry of herbs and medicinal supplies -- The cord that broke courtly love in Celestina -- Lingering morisco practices in seventeenth-century imaginary. Medieval inspirations for feminine empowerment and meddling neighbors and mediated trickery of the innocent -- Nocturnal trace-induced intimacy by Moorish necromancer in "La inocencia castigada".

"This book explores various representations and productions of love magic in medieval and early modern Iberian fictions. The use of magic serves as a metaphor for issues of control and exchange of knowledge among the various religious identities of the Peninsula throughout the centuries"--

Gift of James R. Moog and Mary Moog, in honor of Dr. Joseph Schraibman.