Kabbalah in Italy, 1280-1510 : a survey /
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| Author / Creator: | Idel, Moshe, 1947- |
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| Imprint: | New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2011. |
| Description: | xi, 494 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8369771 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Kabbalah: Introductory Remarks
- 2. Abraham Abulafia and Ecstatic Kabbalah
- 3. Abraham Abulafia's Activity in Italy
- 4. Ecstatic Kabbalah as an Experiential Lore
- 5. Abraham Abulafia's Hermeneutics
- 6. Eschatological Themes and Divine Names in Abulafia's Kabbalah
- 7. Abraham Abulafia and R. Menahem ben Benjamin: Thirteenth-Century Kabbalistic and Ashkenazi Manuscripts in Italy
- 8. R. Menahem ben Benjamin Recanati
- 9. Menahem Recanati as a Theosophical-Theurgical Kabbalist
- 10. Menahem Recanati's Hermeneutics
- 11. Ecstatic Kabbalah from the Fourteenth through Mid-Fifteenth Centuries
- 12. The Kabbalistic-Philosophical-Magical Exchanges in Italy
- 13. Prisca Theologia: R. Isaac Abravanel, Leone Ebreo, and R. Elijah Hayyim of Genazzano
- 14. R. Yohanan ben Yitzhaq Alemanno
- 15. Jewish Mystical Thought in Lorenzo il Magnifico's Florence
- 16. Other Mystical and Magical Literatures in Renaissance Florence
- 17. Spanish Kabbalists in Italy after the Expulsion
- 18. Two Diverging Types of Kabbalah in Late-Fifteenth-Century Italy
- 19. Jewish Kabbalah in Christian Garb
- 20. Anthropoids from the Middle Ages to Renaissance Italy
- 21. Astromagical Pneumatic Anthropoids from Medieval Spain to Renaissance Italy
- 22. The Trajectory of Eastern Kabbalah and Its Reverberations in Italy
- Concluding Remarks
- Appendix 1. The Angel Named Righteous: From R. 'Amittai of Oria to Erfurt and Rome
- Appendix 2. The Infant Experiment: On the Search for the First Language in Italy
- Appendix 3. R. Yohanan Alemanno's Study Program
- Appendix 4. Magic Temples and Cities in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Mas'udi, Ibn Zarza, Alemanno
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of Manuscripts
- Index of Titles
- Index of Names
