The Arabic Influences on Early Modern Occult

Document Outline

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Introduction
• 1 Arabic Theories of Astral Influences: Abu Ma‘shar al-Balkhi
• 2 Arabic Theories of Astral Magic: The De radiis and the Picatrix
• 3 Textual and Intellectual Reception of Arabic Astral Theories in the Twelfth Century
• 4 Magic in the Thirteenth Century: Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas and Roger Bacon
• 5 Early Modern Astral Magic: Marsilio Ficino
• 6 The True Magic and Astrology of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
• 7 The Magic and Astrology of John Dee
• 8 Celestial Souls and Cosmic Daemons
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index