Idel, Moshe, 1947-

Kabbalah in Italy, 1280-1510 a survey / [electronic resource] : Moshe Idel. - New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2011. - xi, 494 p.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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 -- 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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780300155877 (electronic bk.)




Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel, 1240-ca. 1292.
Recanati, Menahem ben Benjamin, 13th/14th cent.


Cabala--History.--Italy
Mysticism--Judaism--History.


Electronic books.

BM526 / .I3375 2011

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