Paracelsus und seine internationale Rezeption in der frühen Neuzeit. Beiträge zur Geschichte des Paracelsismus (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 86)

ISBN 10: 9004109749 ISBN 13: 9789004109742

Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB, 1998

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This edited volume addresses important aspects of Paracelsian concepts within the context of contemporary science and literature, emphasizing the international dissemination and propagation of Paracelsian ideas during the 16th and 17th centuries. Its contributions analyse different aspects of Paracelsus's work and influence: for instance, his ideas on magic, medicine, and mantic art; his relation to the Jewish tradition, and the controversies caused by Paracelsian authors. Special attention is given to the impact of Paracelsus on the Rosicrucian movement.
This volume will be of interst to historians of medicine, literature, and culture in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Contributors include: Stephen Bamforth, Udo Benzenhöfer, Lucien Braun, Roland Edighoffer, Frank Hieronymus, Didier Kahn, Joseph Levi, Cunhild Pörksen, Heinz Schott, Joachim Telle, and Ilana Zinguer.

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Heinz Schott, M.D., Ph.D. is Professor of History of Medicine at Bonn University. He has published extensively on the history of mesmerism and psychoanalysis, and recently on Paracelsus.

Illana Zinguer is Professor of French Literature at Haifa University in Israel. She has published extensively on Renaissance topics such as narrative, languages, hermeticism, alchemy, medicine. Her recent publications include Le roman stéganamorphique, Le Voyage des Princes Fortunés (Champion, 1994).

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• Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9004109749
• ISBN 13: 9789004109742
• Einband: Ledereinband
• Anzahl der Seiten: 274
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