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Symphorien Champier and the Reception of the Occultist Tradition in Renaissance France
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Symphorien Champier and the Reception of the Occultist Tradition in Renaissance France
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Table of contents
- 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