José Vieira Leitão

Email: jose.cv.leitao@gmail.com

José Vieira Leitão has a PhD in Experimental Physics from the Delft University of Technology (Netherlands, 2014) and Modern History from the University of Coimbra (2024). His current lines of research focus on the mapping of both learned and folk magic in Portugal, as well as other expressions of esoteric practice and thinking. This includes the search for autochthonous magic and esoteric texts in Portuguese and Iberian archives, and the understanding of the local circulation of European magic texts. He is a member of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism and has authored several annotated translations of literary works related to magic and/or religious heterodoxy.

Main interests and research topics: Books of Saint Cyprian; Grimoire Tradition; Magic; Magical literature; Methodology in Religious Studies; Occultism; Portuguese Inquisition; Western Esotericism; Witchcraft.

Ciência Vitae: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/FA12-F6FC-65FE

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7456-5045

Repositório: https://coimbra.academia.edu/JoséVieiraLeitão

Research group(s): Cultural encounters and evasion; Reimagining the historian’s craft