ABSTRACT
This chapter aims at analyzing some of the main passages through which the work of transmission of cultural patterns occurred within the context mentioned above, and how the polemic against magic fitted into that, as part of the friars' specific pastoral and reforming goals. The consideration of themes related to magic, superstition, and witchcraft was for both Antonino and Bernardino part of the comprehensive engagement with society they displayed through pastoral and reformative tools. The chapter analyzes the understanding of these friars in relation to the problem of magic and superstition, and to see how elements, traces, and ideas pertaining to these domains circulated within the specific cultural contexts the friars were or might have been close to. The world of magic and superstition was one with almost no steady boundaries in social, cultural, and chronological terms.
