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The Introduction by Professor Classen, eminent in Mediaeval and Germanic Studies and editor of I Mediaevistik i , is by far the longest contribution (108 pp., including 73 pp. summarizing others' contributions), and I will mainly focus on it for this assessment in the light of the other articles. Yet Classen himself has tended to lapse into simplicity by reducing problematic magic to "necromancy" (esp. pp. 17, 19, 27, 79-50, 64-65, 105), which is not indexed and for him apparently means sorcery in general, and only receives its generic Latinization as I nigromantia i and its clearest definition as demon-conjuring "black magic" by Claire Fanger's paper (at p. 478). As theoretical background to the book, I notice that the whole book puts us in touch with the new titles on Western magic. [Extracted from the article]