White magic, Black magic in the European Renaissance
| Основен автор: | Zambelli, Paola. |
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| Автор-организации: | ebrary, Inc. |
| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2007.
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| Серия: |
Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions
v. 125. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
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Съдържание:
- 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.