Institution
Societas Magica
The scholarly society for pre-modern magic studies, publishing its newsletter since the 1990s
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About
The Societas Magica is the scholarly society dedicated to the study of pre-modern magic, from the Solomonic grimoire tradition to the magic of the medieval Middle East and Renaissance Europe. It brings together the historians, philologists and manuscript scholars who work on magic's textual history, and its sessions at the International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo are the field's regular meeting point.
The society runs an active publication program: its newsletter The Making carries research essays on grimoire traditions, magical manuscripts and the history of learned magic, with recent issues through 2026 (issue 44, Spring 2026), and its symposia gather members around specific corpora, from Ars Notoria to the Clavicula Salomonis.
The Societas Magica is academic rather than practitioner-focused: membership, dues, newsletters and symposia are its whole apparatus, and its work underpins the historical side of the grimoire tradition that modern practitioners draw on. As the scholarly counterpart to the revival of Solomonic magic, it is where the tradition's documents are studied with full rigor. The institution's stated mission: To promote the scholarly study of pre-modern magic.
Mission
To promote the scholarly study of pre-modern magic.
History
The Societas Magica was founded by manuscript scholars to study magic's textual history, running symposia with the International Medieval Congress and publishing The Making newsletter, whose issue 44 appeared in Spring 2026.