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On October 30th, M.A. Candidate Jill Hughes gave a guest lecture for English Ph.D Candidate Hayley Cotter's course "Books Without Reading, The Book in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance," in which she discussed the history of grimoires--reference books for magic practitioners. Hughes's lecture included looks at the long history of The Key of Solomon (often dated c. 14th-15th century), the relationships between religious and magical texts in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, and contemporary examples of grimoires in popular culture, such as in the film Hocus Pocus (1993).