Renaissance Magic

Call for Contributions Plotinus and the Moving Image: Neoplatonism and Film Theory Edited by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein and Giannis Stamat...

Call for Chapters - The Material Culture of Magic Book project, ed. by Dr Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie and Dr Leo Ruickbie Magic is a wide ...

It is very difficult to give a systematic account of his philosophy. For it is not the aim of Plotinus, as it was of Aristotle, to comprehe...

"His attentiveness to the volumes ultimately sheds light on the intellectual frames of reference that result in the transformations he ...

At first glance, it might seem that Renaissance magicians such as Ficino and Agrippa had embraced the image magic tradition through their ow...

"We cannot begin with the assumption that magic is irrational; we must ask ourselves why it was that for people whose rationality was o...