What did magicians do in medieval time? What are medieval magicians?

Question

what are magicians? What did they do in everyday life? Were they real or fake? I just need to know ALLLL about magicians

Answer 1

Back then, anyone inclined to magic usually ended up getting shunted into alchemy, a fairly acceptable practice. It was a sort of mixture of chemistry and philosphy with a healthy dose of veiled magical references hidden within. There's a huge amount about it here: http://www.levity.com/alchemy/home.html That'll probably give you a pretty decent picture of most.

Answer 2

Medieval Magician

Answer 3

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You're pretty much free to make up whatever form of address you like. Medieval European royal households didn't really have a position in them that corresponded to "Magician," although the royal physician or some of the clerks of the chapel or chancery might be interested in scholarly texts about magic. Medieval aristocrats also weren't as exacting about forms of address as the nobility of later periods. In English and French, any kind of high-ranking man could be addressed as "sire," and that was about the extent of the forms of address. If the squire calls the magician "sir" as well, that should be fine.

Answer 4

In medieval times those who did sleight of hand style magic tricks were called Jongeleurs, or Jugglers, and almost none of them were persecuted or killed for their performance. Again, the audience knew that no anti-church 'powers' or 'entities' were involved, that it was a mental or visual illusion, and many who could pay for such were quite entertained.

If you are asking about Mages (magi) in medieval times, the answer is quite varied. Either they were relatively poor, lived away from cities and did their works in the fields, their ceremonies in the wilderness,, or they were relatively rich, lived in cities and had their own ritual rooms, chapels, groups, etc. Some were practising alchemists, which the church officially deplored and most kings ignored until Alchemist towers all over Europe began exploding. Then suddenly kings were sponsering them not to transform lead into gold but effectively to discover gunpowder.

Answer 5

Doing magic tricks in the 15th Century could get someone killed. Most likely they would think the magician was doing the work of the devil, then executed. The more commonly accepted form of entertainment in medieval time was music.

Answer 6

It is knowledge and understanding that make a magician. This is true for every age.