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Magic and the classical tradition / edited by Charles Burnett and W.F. Ryan.
- Title
- Magic and the classical tradition / edited by Charles Burnett and W.F. Ryan.
- Publication
- London ; Turin : Warburg Institute-Nino Aragno Editore, 2006.
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- Description
- viii, 229 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Includes discussions of Neoplatonic theurgy, Hermetic astrological talismans, the occult activities of oracles and witches, demon-possession, popular beliefs and party tricks. This book emphasises on showing transmission through time, and across cultural and linguistic borders, and the importance of classical or ancient authorities among writers.
- Series Statement
- Warburg Institute colloquia, 1352-9986 ; 7
- Uniform Title
- Warburg Institute colloquia 7.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings
- History
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Note
- "Originated as a colloquium with the same title, which took place at the Warburg Institute on 19-20 May, 2000" -- p. vii.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- M.J. Geller Deconstructing Talmudic Magic; David Pingree From Hermes to Jabir and the Book of the Cow; Jeffrey Spier A Revival of Antique Magical Practice in Tenth-Century Constantinople; W.F. Ryan Ancient Demons and Russian Fevers; Adelina Angusheva Divination, Demons and Magic: A Hellenistic Theme from the Byzantine and Medieval Slavic Perspective; Sophie Page Image-Magic Texts and a Platonic Cosmology at St Augustine's, Canterbury in the Late Middle Ages; Charles Burnett A Hermetic Programme of Astrology and Divination in mid-Twelfth-Century Aragon: The Hidden Preface in the Liber novem iudicum; Jan R. Veenstra Venerating and Conjuring Angels: Eiximenis's Book of the Holy Angels and the Holy Almandal. Two Case Studies; Robert Goulding Deceiving the Senses in the Thirteenth Century: Trickery and Illusion in the Secretum philosophorum; Nicolas Weill-Parot Contriving Classical References for Talismanic Magic in the Middle Ages and the Early Renaissance; Paolo Lucentini and Antonella Sannino Recommendatio astronomiae: un anonimo trattato del secolo XV in difesa dell'astrologia e della magia; Richard Kieckhefer Did Magic Have a Renaissance? An Historiographic Question Revisited; Dorothy Severin Two Fifteenth-Century Spanish Literary Conjurations and their Relationship to Lucan's Pharsalia VI; With Preface and Index.
- ISBN
- 0854811311
- OCLC
- 64768773
- SCSB-12205734
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library