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| 1. |  € 60,00 | EAN-13: 9780812249217 Zachary A. Matus
Franciscans and the Elixir of Life Religion and Science in the Later Middle Ages
| Edizione: | Pennsylvania University Press, 2017 |
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Nessuna informazione sulla tempistica di fornitura | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 60,00 | | Descrizione | One of the major ambitions of medieval alchemists was to discover the elixir of life, a sovereign remedy capable not only of healing the body but of transforming it. Given the widespread belief that care for the body came at the cost of care for the soul, it might seem surprising that any Franciscan would pursue the elixir, but those who did were among its most outspoken and optimistic advocates. They believed they could distill a substance that would purify, transmute, and ennoble the human body as well as the soul. In an age when Christians across Europe were seeking material evidence for their faith and corporeal means of practicing their devotion, alchemy, and the elixir in particular, offered a way to bridge the terrestrial and the celestial.
Framed as a history around science, Franciscans and the Elixir of Life focuses on alchemy as a material practice and investigates the Franciscan discourses and traditions that shaped the pursuit of the elixir, providing a rich examination of alchemy and religiosity. Zachary A. Matus makes new connections between alchemy, ritual life, apocalypticism, and the particular commitment of the Franciscan Order to the natural world, shedding new light on the question of why so many people claimed to have made, seen, or used alchemical compounds that could never have existed. |  Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 2. | € 30,00 | EAN-13: 9780271020457 D.P. Walker
Spiritual & Demonic Magic
| Edizione: | Pennsylvania University Press, 2013 |
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| 3. | € 28,00 | EAN-13: 9780812222104 Moshe Idel
Old Worlds, New Mirrors On Jewish Mysticism and Twentieth-Century Thought
| Edizione: | Pennsylvania University Press |
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Nessuna informazione sulla tempistica di fornitura | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 28,00 | | Descrizione | There emerged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a new Jewish elite, notes Moshe Idel, no longer made up of prophets, priests, kings, or rabbis but of intellectuals and academicians working in secular universities or writing for an audience not defined by any one set of religious beliefs. In Old Worlds, New Mirrors Idel turns his gaze on figures as diverse as Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, Franz Kafka and Franz Rosenzweig, Arnaldo Momigliano and Paul Celan, Abraham Heschel and George Steiner to reflect on their relationships to Judaism in a cosmopolitan, mostly European, context.
Idelhimself one of the world's most eminent scholars of Jewish mysticismfocuses in particular on the mystical aspects of his subjects' writings. Avoiding all attempts to discern anything like a single "essence of Judaism" in their works, he nevertheless maintains a sustained effort to illumine especially the Kabbalistic and Hasidic strains of thought these figures would have derived from earlier Jewish sources. Looming large throughout is Gershom Scholem, the thinker who played such a crucial role in establishing the study of Kabbalah as a modern academic discipline and whose influence pervades Idel's own work; indeed, the author observes, much of the book may be seen as a mirror held up to reflect on the broader reception of Scholem's t | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 4. | € 34,00 | EAN-13: 9780812220841 William H. Sherman
Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England (Material Texts)
| Edizione: | Pennsylvania University Press |
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| 5. | € 100,00 | EAN-13: 9780812249354 Christopher A. Faraone
The Transformation of Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times
| Edizione: | Pennsylvania University Press |
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