Magic in Western Culture
From Antiquity to the Enlightenment
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Word Count
153,000 words, Guess
Page Count
612 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivemagicinwesterncu0000cope
- ISBN-10110707052X
- ISBN-139781107070523
- Library of Congress Control Number2014043085
- OCLC Control Number894557598
and 2 more
- Better World Books9781107070523
- Open LibraryOL28018253M
Classifications
- LCCBF1589 .C83 2015
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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