Idel, Moshe. Kabbalah in Italy, 1280-1510 : a survey

Folger bibliographic ID: 245808
Folger call number: BM526 .I3375 2011
Folger holdings ID: 312598

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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 -- Two 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

Extended title: Kabbalah in Italy, 1280-1510 : a survey / Moshe Idel

Cabala Mysticism Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel, 1240-approximately 1292 Recanati, Menahem ben Benjamin, active 13th-14th century

author: Idel, Moshe, 1947-
subject: Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel, 1240-approximately 1292
subject: Recanati, Menahem ben Benjamin, active 13th-14th century