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White Magic, Black Magic in the European Renaissance
Paola Zambelli
出版BRILL, 2007
主題History / RenaissanceHistory / GeneralReligion / History
ISBN97890041609899004160981
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Tp6PhNsz43EC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.