The Occult in Early Modern Europe: A Documentary History - Rilegato

Maxwell-Stuart, P. G.

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ISBN 10: 0333688147 ISBN 13: 9780333688144

Casa editrice: Red Globe Pr, 1999

Riassunto

Witchcraft and the occult sciences are areas which have benefited enormously from the spread of more sophisticated cultural studies in recent years. The old debate as to whether or not witches were really believed to exist has collapsed in the face of the overwhelming bodies of evidence suggesting a genuine and widespread acceptance of the occult in a notionally Christian Europe.
This excellent and wide-ranging documentary anthology shows the genuinely pan-European nature of the phenomenon, its spread through all classes and its importance in people's thinking about the natural world. It covers magic, witchcraft, astrology, alchemy and other related occult themes and presents them, not as disparate elements of folkloric belief and intellectual aberrations, but as parts of a coherent, intellectually rigorous and scientifically challenging world-view, consistently argued in accordance with its given basic principles. This collection is drawn from a very wide range of authors from the early modern period and includes many newly translated documents which appear in English here for the first time.

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Recensione:

'This is an excellent collection of sources which documents the extraordinary interest in what we now call occult studies or occult sciences in the Early Modern period...' - Paregon

'Tommaso Campanella, Paaracelsus, Pierre Bayle, Jean Bodin, Spinoza, and many others are represented in this well-structured and informative anthology.' - International Review of Biblical Studies

'An interesting collection of documents which give access to significant historical source material.' - Tim Megarry, University of Greenwich

L'autore:

P.G. MAXWELL-STUART is a Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of St Andrews, UK.

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• Editore: Red Globe Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0333688147
• ISBN 13: 9780333688144
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 264