Kabbalah in Italy, 1280-1510 a survey / Moshe Idel.
| Author/creator | Idel, Moshe, 1947- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New Haven : Yale University Press, |
| Description | xi, 494 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Kabbalah : introductory remarks -- Abraham Abulafia and ecstatic kabbalah -- Abraham Abulafia's activity in Italy -- Ecstatic kabbalah as an experiential lore -- Abraham Abulafia's hermeneutics -- Eschatological themes and divine names in Abulafia's kabbalah -- Abraham Abulafia and R. Menahem ben Benjamin : thirteenth-century kabbalistic and Ashkenazi manuscripts in italy -- R. Menahem ben Benjamin Recanati -- Menahem Recanati as a theosophical-theurgical kabbalist -- Menahem Recanati's hermeneutics -- Ecstatic kabbalah from the fourteenth through mid-fifteenth centuries -- The kabbalistic-philosophical-magical exchanges in Italy -- Prisca theologia : R. Isaac Abravanel, Leone Ebreo, and R. Elijah Hayyim of Genazzano -- R. Yohanan ben Yitzhaq Alemanno -- Jewish mystical thought in Lorenzo il Magnifico's Florence -- Other mystical and magical literatures in Renaissance Florence -- Spanish kabbalists in Italy after the expulsion -- Diverging types of kabbalah in late-fifteenth-century Italy -- Jewish kabbalah in Christian garb -- Anthropoids from the Middle Ages to Renaissance Italy -- Astromagical pneumatic anthropoids from medieval Spain to Renaissance Italy -- The trajectory of eastern kabbalah and its reverberations in Italy -- Concluding remarks. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 467-475) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010020343 |
| ISBN | 9780300126266 (alk. paper) |
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