Symphorien Champier and the Reception of the Occultist Tradition in Renaissance France ||

Kennern gilt Reschers Werk als einzigartig in seiner Bandbreite. Die in dieser Reihe versammelten Studien eröffnen neue Zugänge zum Denken und zu den Theorien dieses bedeutenden zeitgenössischen Philosophen. PREFACE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS I. Abbreviations for Champier's Titles II. Some Other Sixteenth Century Editions containing Titles by Champier III. Abbreviations for Secondary Sources Frequently Cited INTRODUCTORY ESSAY. THE PROBLEM OF THE OCCULTIST TRADITION IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE CHAPTER ONE. A BRIEF LIFE OF SYMPHORIEN CHAMPIER: HIS CAREER AND CHARACTER I. His Adventurous Career II. His Disputatious Character Arena One: Medicine Arena Two: Humanism CHAPTER TWO. CHAMPIER'S USE AND CRITICISM OF THE SOURCES OF THE OCCULTIST TRADITION I. The Greek and Latin Classics II. The ‘prisca theologia‘ III. Early Christianity IV. Islam V. Scholasticism and the Later Middle Ages VI. The Renaissance VII. The Dyalogus... in magicarum artium destructionem CHAPTER THREE. CHAMPIER'S CRITIQUE OF OCCULTISM I. Some Preconceptions: The World-Soul and the Notion of Middle Things II. Natural Magic III. Demonology and Demonic Magic IV. Astrology V. Divination and Dreams VI. Occult Medicine VII. Alchemy and Cabala CONCLUDING ESSAY. CHAMPIER'S RECEPTION OF THE OCCULTIST TRADITION APPENDIX. A FACSIMILE AND AN ANNOTATED TRANSLATION OF CHAMPIER'S Dyalogus...in magicarum artium destructionem Notes to the Appendix BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX OF CHAMPIER'S WORKS INDEX OF PROPER NAMES INDEX OF SUBJECTS