1879. Contents: Cosmic Philosophy of the Middle Ages and Its Historical Development; Magic of the Church; Magic of the Learned; Magic of the People and the Struggle of the Church Against It.
Abraham Viktor Rydberg (Jönköping, December 18, 1828 – Djursholm, September 21, 1895) was a Swedish writer and a member of the Swedish Academy, 1877-1895. "Primarily a classical idealist",[1] Viktor Rydberg has been described as "Sweden's last Romantic" and by 1859 was "generally regarded in the first rank of Swedish novelists."