Editorial: Harvard University Press
Número de páginas: 304 págs.
Fecha de edición: 05-12-2023
EAN: 9780674659735
ISBN: 978-0-674-65973-5
Precio (sin IVA): 45,40 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 47,22 €
In literary legend, Faustus is the quintessential occult personality of early modern Europe. The historical Faustus, however, was something quite different: a magus—a learned magician fully embedded in the scholarly currents and public life of the Renaissance. And he was hardly the only one. Anthony Grafton argues that the magus in sixteenth-century Europe was a distinctive intellectual type, both different from and indebted to medieval counterparts as well as contemporaries like the engineer, the artist, the Christian humanist, and the religious reformer. Alongside these better-known figures, the magus had a transformative impact on his social world.