Dr L.S. Chardonnens (Sandor)

Expertise: the supernatural, specifically interactions between human beings and spirits (demons, angels, ghosts, etc.); history of magic; (dream) divination.

Dr Sándor Chardonnens (PhD Leiden 2006) is researcher at the Radboud Institute for Cultural and History, and senior lecturer at the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures. He teaches medieval English language and literature, and the history of medieval and early modern magic in Europe. His research focuses on the books in which early modern European magicians recorded their rituals and practices, and the objects with which they enacted their rituals.