Anthony Grafton

Gebundenes Buch

Magus

The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa

Beschreibung

Anthony Grafton explores the art and influence of an opaque historical figure: the magus, or learned magician. A distinctive intellectual type in Renaissance Europe, magi contributed to the humanistic currents of the time and had a transformative impact on public life, influencing advances in sculpture, painting, engineering, and other fields.

Autor

Anthony Grafton is the author of The Footnote, Defenders of the Text, Forgers and Critics, and Inky Fingers, among other books. The Henry Putnam University Professor of History and the Humanities at Princeton University, he writes regularly for the New York Review of Books.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 162mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 618g
• ISBN-13: 9780674659735
• ISBN-10: 0674659732
• Artikelnr.: 69080389