Aristotelianism And Magic In Early Modern Europe

Author : Donato Verardi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350357181

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Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe by Donato Verardi Pdf

Reframing Aristotle's natural philosophy, this wide-ranging collection of essays reveals the centrality of magic to his thinking. From late medieval and Renaissance discussions on the attribution of magical works to Aristotle to the philosophical and social justifications of magic, international contributors chart magic as the mother science of natural philosophy. Tracing the nascent presence of Aristotelianism in early modern Europe, this volume shows the adaptability and openness of Aristotelianism to magic. Weaving the paranormal and the scientific together, it pairs the supposed superstition of the pre-modern era with modern scientific sensibilities. Essays focus on the work of early modern scholars and magicians such as Giambattista Della Porta, Wolferd Senguerd, and Johann Nikolaus Martius. The attribution of the Secretum secretorum to Aristotle, the role of illusionism, and the relationship between the technical and magical all provide further insight into the complex picture of magic, Aristotle and early modern Europe. Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe proposes an innovative way of approaching the development of pre-modern science whilst also acknowledging the crucial role that concepts like magic and illusion played in Aristotle's time.

Author : Allison P. Coudert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780275996741

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Religion, Magic, and Science in Early Modern Europe and America by Allison P. Coudert Pdf

This fascinating study looks at how the seemingly incompatible forces of science, magic, and religion came together in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries to form the foundations of modern culture. As Religion, Magic, and Science in Early Modern Europe and America makes clear, the early modern period was one of stark contrasts: witch burnings and the brilliant mathematical physics of Isaac Newton; John Locke's plea for tolerance and the palpable lack of it; the richness of intellectual and artistic life, and the poverty of material existence for all but a tiny percentage of the population. Yet, for all the poverty, insecurity, and superstition, the period produced a stunning galaxy of writers, artists, philosophers, and scientists. This book looks at the conditions that fomented the emergence of such outstanding talent, innovation, and invention in the period 1450 to 1800. It examines the interaction between religion, magic, and science during that time, the impossibility of clearly differentiating between the three, and the impact of these forces on the geniuses who laid the foundation for modern science and culture.

Author : E. William Monter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : IND:39000005520361

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Ritual, Myth and Magic in Early Modern Europe by E. William Monter Pdf

Author : Edward Bever,Edward Watts Morton Bever
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131733342

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The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe by Edward Bever,Edward Watts Morton Bever Pdf

This book explores the elements of reality in early modern witchcraft and popular magic through a combination of detailed archival research and broad-ranging interdisciplinary analyses. The book complements and challenges existing scholarship, offering unique insights into this murky aspect of early modern history.

Author : Helen L. Parish
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441100320

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Superstition and Magic in Early Modern Europe: A Reader by Helen L. Parish Pdf

Superstition and Magic in Early Modern Europe brings together a rich selection of essays which represent the most important historical research on religion, magic and superstition in early modern Europe. Each essay makes a significant contribution to the history of magic and religion in its own right, while together they demonstrate how debates over the topic have evolved over time, providing invaluable intellectual, historical, and socio-political context for readers approaching the subject for the first time. The essays are organised around five key themes and areas of controversy. Part One tackles superstition; Part Two, the tension between miracles and magic; Part Three, ghosts and apparitions; Part Four, witchcraft and witch trials; and Part Five, the gradual disintegration of the 'magical universe' in the face of scientific, religious and practical opposition. Each part is prefaced by an introduction that provides an outline of the historiography and engages with recent scholarship and debate, setting the context for the essays that follow and providing a foundation for further study. This collection is an invaluable toolkit for students of early modern Europe, providing both a focused overview and a springboard for broader thinking about the underlying continuities and discontinuities that make the study of magic and superstition a perennially fascinating topic.

Author : Allison P. Coudert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798216138112

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Religion, Magic, and Science in Early Modern Europe and America by Allison P. Coudert Pdf

This fascinating study looks at how the seemingly incompatible forces of science, magic, and religion came together in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries to form the foundations of modern culture. As Religion, Magic, and Science in Early Modern Europe and America makes clear, the early modern period was one of stark contrasts: witch burnings and the brilliant mathematical physics of Isaac Newton; John Locke's plea for tolerance and the palpable lack of it; the richness of intellectual and artistic life, and the poverty of material existence for all but a tiny percentage of the population. Yet, for all the poverty, insecurity, and superstition, the period produced a stunning galaxy of writers, artists, philosophers, and scientists. This book looks at the conditions that fomented the emergence of such outstanding talent, innovation, and invention in the period 1450 to 1800. It examines the interaction between religion, magic, and science during that time, the impossibility of clearly differentiating between the three, and the impact of these forces on the geniuses who laid the foundation for modern science and culture.

Author : H Darrel Rutkin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030107796

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Sapientia Astrologica: Astrology, Magic and Natural Knowledge, ca. 1250-1800 by H Darrel Rutkin Pdf

This book explores the changing perspective of astrology from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era. It introduces a framework for understanding both its former centrality and its later removal from legitimate knowledge and practice. The discussion reconstructs the changing roles of astrology in Western science, theology, and culture from 1250 to 1500. The author considers both the how and the why. He analyzes and integrates a broad range of sources. This analysis shows that the history of astrology—in particular, the story of the protracted criticism and ultimate removal of astrology from the realm of legitimate knowledge and practice—is crucial for fully understanding the transition from premodern Aristotelian-Ptolemaic natural philosophy to modern Newtonian science. This removal, the author argues, was neither obvious nor unproblematic. Astrology was not some sort of magical nebulous hodge-podge of beliefs. Rather, astrology emerged in the 13th century as a richly mathematical system that served to integrate astronomy and natural philosophy, precisely the aim of the “New Science” of the 17th century. As such, it becomes a fundamentally important historical question to determine why this promising astrological synthesis was rejected in favor of a rather different mathematical natural philosophy—and one with a very different causal structure than Aristotle's.

Author : Daniel Bellingradt,Bernd-Christian Otto
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3319595245

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Magical Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe by Daniel Bellingradt,Bernd-Christian Otto Pdf

This book presents the story of a unique collection of 140 manuscripts of ‘learned magic’ that was sold for a fantastic sum within the clandestine channels of the German book trade in the early eighteenth century. The book will interpret this collection from two angles – as an artefact of the early modern book market as well as the longue-durée tradition of Western learned magic –, thus taking a new stance towards scribal texts that are often regarded as eccentric, peripheral, or marginal. The study is structured by the apparent exceptionality, scarcity, and illegality of the collection, and provides chapters on clandestine activities in European book markets, questions of censorship regimes and efficiency, the use of manuscripts in an age of print, and the history of learned magic in early modern Europe. As the collection has survived till this day in Leipzig University Library, the book provides a critical edition of the 1710 selling catalogue, which includes a brief content analysis of all extant manuscripts. The study will be of interest to scholars and students from a variety of fields, such as early modern book history, the history of magic, cultural history, the sociology of religion, or the study of Western esotericism.

Author : Mark A Waddell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1108348238

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Magic, Science, and Religion in Early Modern Europe by Mark A Waddell Pdf

Author : Kocku von Stuckrad
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004184237

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Locations of Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Kocku von Stuckrad Pdf

Addressing discourses of perfect knowledge in Western culture between 1200 and 1800, this book integrates the study of Western esotericism in a larger analytical framework of European history of religion.

Author : Steven P. Marrone
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137029768

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A History of Science, Magic and Belief by Steven P. Marrone Pdf

A History of Science, Magic and Belief is an exploration of the origins of modern society through the culture of the middle ages and early modern period. By examining the intertwined paths of three different systems for interpreting the world, it seeks to create a narrative which culminates in the birth of modernity. It looks at the tensions and boundaries between science and magic throughout the middle ages and how they were affected by elite efforts to rationalise society, often through religion. The witch-crazes of the sixteenth and seventeenth century are seen as a pivotal point, and the emergence from these into social peace is deemed possible due to the Scientific Revolution and the politics of the early modern state. This book is unique in drawing together the histories of science, magic and religion. It is thus an ideal book for those studying any or all of these topics, and with its broad time frame, it is also suitable for students of the history of Europe or Western civilisation in general.

Author : Liana Saif
Publisher : Springer
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137399472

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The Arabic Influences on Early Modern Occult Philosophy by Liana Saif Pdf

Investigating the impact of Arabic medieval astrological and magical theories on early modern occult philosophy, this book argues that they provided a naturalistic explanation of astral influences and magical efficacy based on Aristotelian notions of causality.

Author : Gerhild Scholz Williams
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0472086197

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Defining Dominion by Gerhild Scholz Williams Pdf

How magic influenced people's lives and thought in early modern Europe

Author : Gerhild Scholz Williams,Charles D. Gunnoe Jr.
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-02-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781935503569

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Paracelsian Moments by Gerhild Scholz Williams,Charles D. Gunnoe Jr. Pdf

Scientific ideas inspired by religious, magical, and alchemical themes competed alongside traditional Aristotelian science and the emerging mechanical philosophy in the early modern era. At the center of this ferment was a quirky and creative German physician, Paracelsus, whose religious-alchemical worldview served as an inspiration for countless scientific innovators. This collection is about Paracelsus and the wide range of issues he explored, and ones taken up by many who were directly or indirectly affected by the same mental universe that sustained his thought and writings. This volume includes strong contextual studies on Paracelsianism and the larger cultural history of early modern science, including groundbreaking studies on Robert Boyle, François Rabelais, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, and Johannes Praetorius.

Author : Ingrid Merkel,Allen G. Debus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040809449

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Hermeticism and the Renaissance by Ingrid Merkel,Allen G. Debus Pdf