Defining Nature's LimitsA look at the history of censorship, science, and magic from the Middle Ages to the post Reformation era. Neil Tarrant challenges conventional thinking by looking at the longer history of censorship, considering a five hundred year continuity of goals and methods stretching from the late eleventh century to well into the sixteenth. Unlike earlier studies, Defining Natures Limits engages the history of both learned and popular magic. Tarrant explains