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Author: Noel L. Brann
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780791439616
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn 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
Published: 2022-04-19
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9004474021
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ole Peter Grell
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9789004111776
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume offers a revisionist interpretation of Paracelsus and Paracelsianism. It points to the need for a new historiographical approach to the man and his ideas, while demonstrating the value of seeing them in their totallity, as well as in their proper historical text.
Author: Peter Marshall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-08-31
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0521843324
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores the role of belief in the existence of angels in the early modern world.
Author: William R. Newman
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780262140751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fresh look at the role of astrology and alchemy in Renaissance thinking and everyday life.
Author: Paul S. MacDonald
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2018-11
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 0359197906
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn alternative history of philosophy has endured as a shadowy parallel to standard histories, although it shares many of the same themes. It has its own founding texts in the late ancient Hermetica, from whence flowed three broad streams of thought: alchemy, astrology, and magic. These thinkers' attitude toward philosophy is not one of detached speculation but of active engagement, even intervention. It appeared again in the European Middle Ages, in the Renaissance with Rabelais, Paracelsus, Agrippa, Ficino, and Bruno; and in the early modern period with John Dee, Robert Fludd, Jacob Böhme, Thomas Browne, Kenelm Digby, van Helmont, and Isaac Newton. In the 18th-19th centuries, this book considers Lichtenberg's Fragments, Berkeley's Siris, Swedenborg, Hegel, von Baader, and great Romantics such as Novalis, Goethe, S. T. Coleridge, and E. A. Poe, as well as Nietzsche; and in the 20th century it turns to the great modernist literature of Fernando Pessoa, Robert Musil, Ernst Bloch, and P. K. Dick.
Author: Johannes Trithemius
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-07-03
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9781535073806
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTrithemius is best known for his hidden writing- the infamous Steganographia, but his other works, including this short grimoire on the use of crystals in summoning celestial spirits, are no less potent. Through the use of a simple wand, pedestal, lamen, and a polished and clear crystal, Trithemius states that it is possible to manifest and converse with celestial forces and to constrain them through the use of simple invocation and prayer.
Author: Anthony Grafton
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0674659732
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnthony 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: Frank Klaassen
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0271056266
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Explores two principal genres of illicit learned magic in late Medieval manuscripts: image magic, which could be interpreted and justified in scholastic terms, and ritual magic, which could not"--Provided by publisher.
Author: J. Raymond
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-08-09
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 0230316972
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased 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.
