| White Magic, Black Magic in the European Renaissance: From Ficino, Pico, Della Porta to Trithemius, Agrippa, Bruno Contributor(s): Zambelli (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004160981 ISBN-13: 9789004160989 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2007 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Renaissance - History | Social History - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General |
| Dewey: 133.4 |
| LCCN: 2007027417 |
| Series: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions: History, Culture, Religion, Ideas |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.5" W x 9.4" (1.55 lbs) 292 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book explores philosophical theories which in the Renaissance provided an interpretation of nature, of its laws and exceptions and, lastly, of man's capacity to dominate the cosmos by way of natural magic or by magical ceremonies. It does not concentrate on the Hermetic and Neoplatonic philosophers (Ficino, Pico, Della Porta), or on the relationship between magic and the scientific revolution, but rather upon the interference of the ideas and practices of learned magicians with popular rites and also with witchcraft, a most important question for social and religious history. New definitions of magic put forward by certain unorthodox and wandering scholastics (Trithemius, Agrippa, Paracelsus, Bruno) will interest readers of Renaissance and Reformation texts and history. |