Bøger af Brian P. Copenhaver

'Magic in Western Culture'

Bog | Engelsk

The story of the beliefs and practices called 'magic' starts in ancient Iran, Greece, and Rome, before entering its crucial Christian phase in the Middle Ages. Centering on the Renaissance and Marsilio Ficino - whose work on magic was the most inf

'Magic and the Dignity of Man'

Bog | Engelsk

This book is nothing less than the definitive study of a text long considered central to understanding the Renaissance and its place in Western culture. James Hankins, Harvard University Pico della Mirandola died in 1494 at the age of thirty-one. During h