Introduction to Magickal Grimoires

The “classical age” of the Grimoire texts is roughly equivalent to the span of the Middle (or Medieval) and Renaissance ages. The middle Ages began roughly in the fifth century CE, when the empire of Rome was both infiltrated and violently overrun by Germanic tribes. This is when the famous sacking of Rome took place at the hands of the Vandals, in the year 455 CE. The established government was slowly inched out of power, and Italy became little more than an extension of a German kingdom. The vast Roman Republic faded away, and was replaced by a wholly agricultural society.