Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa

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Автор	Grafton A.
Издательство	Belknap Press
Год издания	2025
Переплет	Мягкий
Страниц	304
Формат	139x209 мм
Язык	Английский
ISBN	9780674301610
Артикул	1218623

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In literary legend, Faustus is the quintessential occult personality. The historical Faustus, however, was something quite different: a magus―a learned magician fully embedded in the scholarly currents and public life of his time. And he was hardly the only one. Anthony Grafton argues that the magus in Renaissance Europe was a distinctive intellectual type, indebted to medieval counterparts as well as contemporaries like the engineer, artist, Christian humanist, and religious reformer. Alongside these better-known figures, the magus had a transformative impact on his social world.

Magus details the arts and experiences of learned magicians including Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola, Johannes Trithemius, and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa. These erudite men were at the center of debates concerning licit and illicit magic, the divine and the diabolical. Over time, they turned magic into a complex art, which drew on contemporary engineering as well as classical astrology, probed the limits of what was acceptable in a changing society, and promised new ways to explore the self and the cosmos.

Resituating the magus in the cultural and intellectual order of Renaissance Europe, Grafton sheds new light on both the recesses of the learned magician’s mind and the world he helped to build.

Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa

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