Title
Magus
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A Seminary CoOp Notable BookProse Award In European HistoryMarvellously Readable . . . Not For Nothing Is Grafton Renowned As TodayS Leading Historian Of Renaissance Intellectual Culture . . . As Erudite As It Is Enchanting. Literary ReviewA Brilliantly Vivid Exercise In Intellectual History, As Told Through The Biographies Of The Early Modern Magi, Which Will Stir The Thoughts Of Everyone Who Reads It. New StatesmanMagus Offers A Rich Set Of Observations On An OftNeglected Intellectual Tradition During A Turning Point In Western Thought . . . Magic Is Once Again Beginning To Merit Serious Study In The Academy. Chronicle Of Higher EducationIn Literary Legend, Faustus Is The Quintessential Occult Personality. The Historical Faustus, However, Was Something Quite Different: A MagusA 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 BetterKnown 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 MagicianS Mind And The World He Helped To Build.
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