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Magic in Western Culture: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment

By Brian P. Copenhaver

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
9781107070523, 110707052X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
20 MB (21483617 bytes)
Pages
612\0
Library
Mobilism
Time added
2023-06-25 08:27:10

Description

The story of the beliefs and practices called 'magic' starts in ancient Iran, Greece, and Rome, before entering its crucial Christian phase in the Middle Ages. Centering on the Renaissance and Marsilio Ficino – whose work on magic was the most influential account written in premodern times – this groundbreaking book treats magic as a classical tradition with foundations that were distinctly philosophical. Besides Ficino, the premodern story of magic also features Plotinus, Iamblichus, Proclus, Aquinas, Agrippa, Pomponazzi, Porta, Bruno, Campanella, Descartes, Boyle, Leibniz, and Newton, to name only a few of the prominent thinkers discussed in this book. Because pictures play a key role in the story of magic, this book is richly illustrated.

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