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Author : Noel L. Brann
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791439615
An examination of Trithemius's "magical theology," which argued for the compatibility of magic and Christian doctrines, and its influence during the Renaissance and Reformation.
Author : N.L. Brann
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004474024
Author : Christopher I. Lehrich
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 900413574X
This is the first modern study of Agrippa's occult philosophy, revealing it to be a coherent part of his intellectual work. It analyzes the text of "De occulta philosophia," explicating the sophisticated structure and argument of the work.
Author : Paola Zambelli
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004160989
The ideas of philosophers (Ficino, Pico, Della Porta, Bruno) on magic interfered with popular alternative and witchcraft rites. This book focuses on "wandering scholastics" (Trithemius, Agrippa, Paracelsus, Bruno) and will be a stimulating read for all those interested in Renaissance mentality.
Author : Arthur Versluis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781461639879
Magic and Mysticism: An Introduction to Western Esoteric Traditions is a concise overview, from antiquity to the present, of all the major Western religious esoteric movements. Topics covered include alchemy, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Rosicrucianism, Theosophy and many more. Magic and Mysticism is ideal for students of Mysticism and New Religious Movements, as well as for general readers of Metaphysics and Esoterica.
Author : Nicholas Clulee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781136183065
This is the definitive study of John Dee and his intellectual career. Originally published in 1988, this interpretation is far more detailed than any that came before and is an authoritative account for anyone interested in the history, literature and scientific developments of the Renaissance, or the occult. John Dee has fascinated successive generations. Mathematician, scientist, astrologer and magus at the court of Elizabeth I, he still provokes controversy. To some he is the genius whose contributions to navigation made possible the feats of Elizabethan explorers and colonists, to others an alchemist and charlatan. Thoroughly examining Dee’s natural philosophy, this book provides a balanced evaluation of his place, and the role of the occult, in sixteenth-century intellectual history. It brings together insights from a study of Dee’s writings, the available biographical material, and his sources as reflected in his extensive library and, more importantly, numerous surviving annotated volumes from it.
Author : James M. Van der Laan,Andrew Weeks
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781571135520
New essays revealing the enduring significance of the story made famous in the 1587 Faustbuch and providing insights into the forces that gave the sixteenth century its distinct character. The Reformation and Renaissance, though segregated into distinct disciplines today, interacted and clashed intimately in Faust, the great figure that attained European prominence in the anonymous 1587 Historia von D. Johann Fausten. The original Faust behind Goethe's great drama embodies a remote culture. In his century, Faust evolved from an obscure cipher to a universal symbol. The age explored here as "the Faustian century" invested the Faustbuch and its theme with a symbolic significance still of exceptional relevance today. The new essays in this volume complement one another, providing insights into the tensions and forces that gave the century its distinctcharacter. Several essays seek Faust's prototypes. Others elaborate the symbolic function of his figure and discern the resonance of his tale in conflicting allegiances. This volume focuses on the intersection of historical accounts and literary imaginings, on shared aspects of the work and its times, on concerns with obedience and transgression, obsessions with the devil and curiosity about magic, and quandaries created by shifting religious and worldlyauthorities. Contributors: Marguerite de Huszar Allen, Kresten Thue Andersen, Frank Baron, Günther Bonheim, Albrecht Classen, Urs Leo Gantenbein, Karl S. Guthke, Michael Keefer, Paul Ernst Meyer, J. M. van der Laan, Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, Andrew Weeks. J. M. van der Laan is Professor of German and Andrew Weeks is Professor of German and Comparative Literature, both at Illinois State University.
Author : Allison P. Coudert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780275996741
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 : Various Authors
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 3312 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136191718
Reissuing seminal works originally published between 1916 and 1995, Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy (7 volume set) offers a selection of scholarship covering various facets of alchemical traditions. Some texts examine alchemy itself while some offer insight into the motives for alchemical research and others outlay portraits of people such as Giordano Bruno and John Dee.
Author : Andrew D. McCarthy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317050674
Engaging with fiction and history-and reading both genres as texts permeated with early modern anxieties, desires, and apprehensions-this collection scrutinizes the historical intersection of early modern European superstitions and English stage literature. Contributors analyze the cultural mechanisms that shape, preserve, and transmit beliefs. They investigate where superstitions come from and how they are sustained and communicated within early modern European society. It has been proposed by scholars that once enacted on stage and thus brought into contact with the literary-dramatic perspective, belief systems that had been preserved and reinforced by historical-literary texts underwent a drastic change. By highlighting the connection between historical-literary and literary-dramatic culture, this volume tests and explores the theory that performance of superstitions opened the way to disbelief.
Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110361643
This volume continues the critical exploration of fundamental issues in the medieval and early modern world, here concerning mental health, spirituality, melancholy, mystical visions, medicine, and well-being. The contributors, who originally had presented their research at a symposium at The University of Arizona in May 2013, explore a wide range of approaches and materials pertinent to these issues, taking us from the early Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, capping the volume with some reflections on the relevance of religion today. Lapidary sciences matter here as much as medical-psychological research, combined with literary and art-historical approaches. The premodern understanding of mental health is not taken as a miraculous panacea for modern problems, but the contributors suggest that medieval and early modern writers, scientists, and artists commanded a considerable amount of arcane, sometimes curious and speculative, knowledge that promises to be of value and relevance even for us today, once again. Modern palliative medicine finds, for instance, intriguing parallels in medieval word magic, and the mystical perspectives encapsulated highly productive alternative perceptions of the macrocosm and microcosm that promise to be insightful and important also for the post-modern world.
Author : Peter Marshall,Alexandra Walsham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521843324
This volume explores the role of belief in the existence of angels in the early modern world.
Author : William R. Newman,Anthony Grafton
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0262140756
A fresh look at the role of astrology and alchemy in Renaissance thinking and everyday life.
Author : Anthony Grafton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Humanists
ISBN : 9780674659735
Anthony Grafton explores the art and influence of an opaque historical figure: the magus, or learned magician. A distinctive intellectual type in Renaissance Europe, magi contributed to the humanistic currents of the time and had a transformative impact on public life, influencing advances in sculpture, painting, engineering, and other fields.
Author : J. Raymond
Publisher : Springer
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230316973
Based on refractions of earlier beliefs, modern angels - at once terrible and comforting, frighteningly other and reassuringly beneficent - have acquired a powerful symbolic value. This interdisciplinary study looks at how humans conversed with angels in medieval and early modern Europe, and how they explained and represented these conversations.
