Eros and Magic in the Renaissance, Paperback - Ioan P. Couliano

It is a widespread prejudice of modern, scientific society that "magic" is merely a ludicrous amalgam of recipes and methods derived from primitive...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 75 bw illusNumber of pages: 232Collection: The Cultural Histories SeriesPublication date: 2022...

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DescriptionMan and Nature in the Renaissance offers an introduction to science and medicine during the earlier phases of the scientific revolution,...

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An illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important patrons - the princely rulers of Italy's dynastic states.Pub...

Tells the history of the modest family which rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe. This title explores the intensely dramatic rise and...

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This book takes the reader on a fantastic journey through a wide range of cultures and traditions to examine the phenomenon of ecstatic visionary e...

DescriptionEvery aspect of ancient Egyptian society-from education and law to medicine, birth, and death-was permeated by religion and magic, and d...

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Eros si magie in Renastere. 1484 (editie noua) - Ioan Petru Culianu

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Learning about art through the ages has never been as interesting or fun as in this humorous and very informative graphic novel. As two kids give t...

Publisher: Tuttle PublishingAuthor(s): Eliza VictoriaIllustration(s): full-color illustrations throughoutNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022...

Before long, with the enterprising nuns working tirelessly as typesetters, the Ripoli Press began printing a series of books and pamphlets that tri...

Reducere. DescriptionThe roots of European witchcraft and magic lie in Hebrew and other ancient Near Eastern cultures and in the Celtic, Nordic, and Germanic...

In the late 16th century the greatest philosophers, alchemists, astronomers, painters, and mathematicians of the day flocked to Prague to work unde...

In his bestselling book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies revealed that it was the Chinese that discovered America, not Colu...

Reducere. DescriptionDuring the Middle Ages a shared European concept of magic emerged. In the early period, pagan beliefs and practices were absorbed into e...

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Reducere. DescriptionIn the ancient Near East, the art of influencing the natural course of events by means of spells and other ritual forms was universal. T...

Reducere. DescriptionThe roots of European witchcraft and magic lie in Hebrew and other ancient Near Eastern cultures and in the Celtic, Nordic, and Germanic...

Filosofia erosului - Anton P. Parlagi

Reducere. Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 2000The roots of European witchcraft and magic lie in Hebrew and other ancient Near...

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Reducere. Already a classic, this landmark study of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. This landma...

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Philip Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim - known to later ages as Paracelsus - stands on the borderline between medieval and modern;Pub...