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Spiritual and Demonic Magic

Spiritual and Demonic Magic

Paperback

Series: Magic in History

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryOccultGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 0271020458
ISBN13: 9780271020457
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Apr 15 2001
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.18 Depth: 9.22
Language: English

First published by the Warburg Institute in 1958, this book is considered a landmark in Renaissance studies. Whereas most scholars had tended to view magic as a marginal subject, Walker showed that magic was one of the most typical creations of the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Walker takes readers through the magical concerns of some of the greatest thinkers of the Renaissance, from Marsilio Ficino, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, and Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples to Jean Bodin, Francis Bacon, and Tommaso Campanella. Ultimately he demonstrates that magic was interconnected with religion, music, and medicine, all of which were central to the Renaissance notion of spiritus.

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