Eros And Magic In The Renaissance
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Eros And Magic In The Renaissance
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Author : Ioan P. Culianu
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1987-11-15
Eros And Magic In The Renaissance written by Ioan P. Culianu and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-11-15 with History categories.
It is a widespread prejudice of modern, scientific society that "magic" is merely a ludicrous amalgam of recipes and methods derived from primitive and erroneous notions about nature. Eros and Magic in the Renaissance challenges this view, providing an in-depth scholarly explanation of the workings of magic and showing that magic continues to exist in an altered form even today. Renaissance magic, according to Ioan Couliano, was a scientifically plausible attempt to manipulate individuals and groups based on a knowledge of motivations, particularly erotic motivations. Its key principle was that everyone (and in a sense everything) could be influenced by appeal to sexual desire. In addition, the magician relied on a profound knowledge of the art of memory to manipulate the imaginations of his subjects. In these respects, Couliano suggests, magic is the precursor of the modern psychological and sociological sciences, and the magician is the distant ancestor of the psychoanalyst and the advertising and publicity agent. In the course of his study, Couliano examines in detail the ideas of such writers as Giordano Bruno, Marsilio Ficino, and Pico della Mirandola and illuminates many aspects of Renaissance culture, including heresy, medicine, astrology, alchemy, courtly love, the influence of classical mythology, and even the role of fashion in clothing. Just as science gives the present age its ruling myth, so magic gave a ruling myth to the Renaissance. Because magic relied upon the use of images, and images were repressed and banned in the Reformation and subsequent history, magic was replaced by exact science and modern technology and eventually forgotten. Couliano's remarkable scholarship helps us to recover much of its original significance and will interest a wide audience in the humanities and social sciences.
Eros I Magie N Rena Tere 1484
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Author : Ioan Petru Culianu
language : ro
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Eros I Magie N Rena Tere 1484 written by Ioan Petru Culianu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Magic categories.
Eros I Magie N Rena Tere 1484
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Author : Ioan P. Culianu
language : ro
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Eros I Magie N Rena Tere 1484 written by Ioan P. Culianu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Magic categories.
Eros And Anteros
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Author : Donald Beecher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Eros And Anteros written by Donald Beecher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with European literature categories.
Eros Magic The Murder Of Professor Culianu
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Author : Ted Anton
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 1996
Eros Magic The Murder Of Professor Culianu written by Ted Anton and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Magic categories.
Anton (writing, DePaul U.) synthesizes the research he has done since the beginning on the still-unsolved May 1991 murder of Chicago Divinity School professor Ioan Culianu, a protege of pioneering mythologist Mircea Eliade. Culianu had been taunting the communist government of his native Romania, and Anton suggests the murder was political. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Renaissance Magic And The Return Of The Golden Age
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Author : John S. Mebane
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1992-01-01
Renaissance Magic And The Return Of The Golden Age written by John S. Mebane and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
For all their pride in seeing this world clearly, the thinkers and artists of the English Renaissance were also fascinated by magic and the occult. The three greatest playwrights of the period devoted major plays (The Tempest, Doctor Faustus, The Alchemist) to magic, Francis Bacon often referred to it, and it was ever-present in the visual arts. In Renaissance Magic and the Return of the Golden Age John S. Mebane reevaluates the significance of occult philosophy in Renaissance thought and literature, constructing the most detailed historical context for his subject yet attempted.
The Transformations Of Magic
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Author : Frank Klaassen
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2015-06-26
The Transformations Of Magic written by Frank Klaassen and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-26 with Religion categories.
In this original, provocative, well-reasoned, and thoroughly documented book, Frank Klaassen proposes that two principal genres of illicit learned magic occur in late medieval manuscripts: image magic, which could be interpreted and justified in scholastic terms, and ritual magic (in its extreme form, overt necromancy), which could not. Image magic tended to be recopied faithfully; ritual magic tended to be adapted and reworked. These two forms of magic did not usually become intermingled in the manuscripts, but were presented separately. While image magic was often copied in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, The Transformations of Magic demonstrates that interest in it as an independent genre declined precipitously around 1500. Instead, what persisted was the other, more problematic form of magic: ritual magic. Klaassen shows that texts of medieval ritual magic were cherished in the sixteenth century, and writers of new magical treatises, such as Agrippa von Nettesheim and John Dee, were far more deeply indebted to medieval tradition—and specifically to the medieval tradition of ritual magic—than previous scholars have thought them to be.
Eros Und Magie In Der Renaissance
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Author : Ioan P. Culianu
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
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Eros Y Magia En El Renacimiento 1484
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Author : Ioan P. Culianu
language : es
Publisher: Siruela
Release Date : 1999
Eros Y Magia En El Renacimiento 1484 written by Ioan P. Culianu and has been published by Siruela this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Psychology categories.
"Eros y magia en el Renacimiento" es un apasionante estudio sobre la imaginacion en el Renacimiento y los cambios provocados despues por la Reforma. El autor arranca de las teorias neoplatonicas de Pico de la Mirandola, Marsilio Ficino o Giordano Bruno, para considerar la magia como una ciencia del imaginario, retratando de paso B+al gran manipuladorB; , el mago renacentista. Culianu sostiene que la magia, en su mas alto grado de desarrollo, es un metodo de control tanto del individuo como de las masas, que se funda en un conocimiento profundo de las pulsiones eroticas personales y colectivas. A traves de la imaginacion todo puede ser manipulado; de ahi que el autor no solo reconozca en la magia a un remoto antecesor del psicoanalisis sino, ademas, de la psicosociologia aplicada y de la psicologia de las masas. Pero la Reforma, y mas tarde la Contrarreforma, impusieron con exito una radical censura del imaginario, que consiguio acabar con la magia. Censura, segun Culianu, que permitio el surgimiento de las ciencias exactas y de la tecnologia moderna.
Angels In The Early Modern World
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Author : Peter Marshall
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-08-31
Angels In The Early Modern World written by Peter Marshall and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-31 with History categories.
This volume explores the role of belief in the existence of angels in the early modern world.