Format:
X, 282 S.
ISBN:
9789004160989
Series Statement:
Studies in medieval and reformation traditions vol. 125
Note:
Literaturangaben
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Introduction : must we really re-appropriate magic? -- White magic, black magic. -- Continuity in the definition of natural magic from Pico to Della Porta : astrology and magic in Italy and north of the Alps ; -- Scholastic and humanist views of Hermetism : witchcraft, "natural magic", Trithemius' magic and Agrippa's critical turn of mind -- (Medieval Hermetic antecedents ; -- Ficino and Pico ; -- Hermetists in Germany) ; -- Magic, pseudepigraphy, prophecies and forgeries in Trithemius' manuscripts : from Cusanus to Bovelles? -- (To publish or not to publish? ; -- Trithemius' passion for magic ; -- Trithemius as a prophet or prognosticator ; -- Magical authorities and forgeries ; -- Blessings and exorcisms ; -- Trithemius and his German contemporaries ; -- Ancient and medieval occult sources ; -- Denunciations and self-defences ; -- Socratism and Cusanian ignorance or simplicity) ; -- Appendix I : Trithemius' bibliography for necromancers -- Agrippa as an author of prohibited books. -- Agrippa of Nettesheim as a critical Magus ; -- Magic and radical Reformation in Agrippa of Nettesheim ; -- Appendix II : recent studies on Agrippa -- Bruno as a reader of prohibited books. -- The initiates and the idiot : conjectures on some Brunian sources -- (Bruno as a reader of the necromancers' 'theoricae' ; -- Bruno and the Paracelsian revival ; -- Bruno as a reader of Lullian and pseudo-Lullian works) ; -- Hermetism and magic in Giordano Bruno : some interpretations from Tocco to Corsano, from Yates to Ciliberto -- (F.A. Yates, D.P. Walker and other scholars in the Warburg Institute ; -- Renaissance magic as seen by Yates and Walker ; -- Magic tricks of Professor Ciliberto) ; -- Appendix III : a Nolan before Bruno : Momus and Socratism in the Renaissance.
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Theology
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Philosophy
,
Ancient Studies
Keywords:
Renaissance
;
Schwarze Magie
;
Weiße Magie
;
Schwarze Magie
;
Weiße Magie
;
Geschichte 1400-1600
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