Book ID: CBB737588900

Lux in Tenebris: The Visual and the Symbolic in Western Esotericism (2016)

unapi

Forshaw, Peter J. (Author)


Brill Academic Publishers


Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: 494 pp.
Language: English

The eighteen original interdisciplinary essays in Lux in Tenebris explore the alchemical, magical, kabbalistic, rosicrucian and theosophical verbal and visual symbolism in the history of Western Esotericism, from the middle ages to the present day.

...More
Reviewed By

Review Didier Kahn (2019) Review of "Lux in Tenebris: The Visual and the Symbolic in Western Esotericism". Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (pp. 82-83). unapi

Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB737588900/

Similar Citations

Book Leonardo Anatrini; Marco Ciardi; (2020)
La scienza impossibile: Percorsi dell'alchimia in Francia tra Ottocento e Novecento (/isis/citation/CBB111971964/)

Book Christopher Partridge; (2014)
The Occult World (/isis/citation/CBB544694972/)

Book Sylla, Edith Dudley; Newman, William Royall; (2009)
Evidence and Interpretation in Studies on Early Science and Medicine Essays in Honor of John E. Murdoch (/isis/citation/CBB001220782/)

Book Ball, Philip; (2006)
The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science (/isis/citation/CBB000773329/)

Book Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas; (2008)
The Western Esoteric Traditions: A Historical Introduction (/isis/citation/CBB000951956/)

Book Ernesto Riva; (2018)
Astrologia e magia nella medicina dei secoli XV e XVI (/isis/citation/CBB450807493/)

Book Hanegraaff, Wouter J.; (2012)
Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture (/isis/citation/CBB001201630/)

Book (2019)
Picatrix: A Medieval Treatise on Astral Magic (/isis/citation/CBB504380554/)

Article Rodríguez-Guerrero, José; (2007)
La Alquimia en España durante el Período Modernista (/isis/citation/CBB000850194/)

Article Sylvie Taussig; (2009)
L' "Examen de la philosophie de Fludd" de Pierre Gassendi par ses hors-texte (/isis/citation/CBB099061187/)

Article Lyke de Vries; (2022)
Protecting Academia and Religion: Andreas Libavius’s Criticism of a General Reformation (/isis/citation/CBB629444913/)

Chapter Reill, Peter; (2010)
The Hermetic Imagination in the High and Late Enlightenment (/isis/citation/CBB001023307/)

Book Giusy Cardellicchio; (2019)
L'angelo, il mago, la regina. John Dee: scienza e misticismo nell'età elisabettiana (/isis/citation/CBB422407695/)

Book Alessandro Bausani; (2021)
I fratelli della purità. Introduzione e commento ai 52 trattati degli Ikhwā n as-safā’ (/isis/citation/CBB057305610/)

Book Forrest, Satnam Mendoza; Skjærvø, Prods O.; (2011)
Witches, Whores, and Sorcerers: The Concept of Evil in Early Iran (/isis/citation/CBB001200614/)

Article Andrea Franchetto; (2020)
Imaginal Architectural Devices and the Ritual Space of Medieval Necromancy (/isis/citation/CBB908630568/)

Article Dasen, Véronique; Nagy, Árpád M.; (2012)
Le serpent léontocéphale Chnoubis et la magie de l'époque romaine impériale (/isis/citation/CBB001201438/)

Article Stagni, Reno; Beltran, Maria Helena Roxo; (2008)
A Imagem Alquímica/Química dos Mineiros: Um Estudo Preliminar (/isis/citation/CBB000950538/)

Essay Review Roos, Anna Marie; (2013)
The Experimental Approach towards a Historiography of Alchemy (/isis/citation/CBB001566933/)

Authors & Contributors
Zanovello, Giovanni
Anatrini, Leonardo
Vries, Lyke de
Jensen, Amanda
Franchetto, Andrea
Christopher Partridge
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Circumscribere: International Journal for the History of Science
Bruniana & Campanelliana: Ricerche Filosofiche e Materiali Storico-testuali
Azogue: Revista Electrónica Dedicada al Estudio Histórico-Crítico de la Alquimia
Anthropozoologica
Publishers
Editoriale Jouvence
Città del Silenzio
University of Texas Press
Routledge
Pennsylvania State University Press
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Alchemy
Magic
Esoteric thought
Rosicrucians
Occult sciences
Symbolism; symbolic representation
People
Paracelsus, Theophrast von Hohenheim
Dee, John
Mathers, Samuel Liddell MacGregor (1854-1918)
Randolph, Paschal Beverly (1825-1874)
Whiting, Phineas Westcott
Swedenborg, Emanuel
Time Periods
Renaissance
Ancient
Medieval
17th century
16th century
20th century, early
Places
Europe
England
France
Spain
Greece
Germany
Institutions
Theosophical Society
Ikhwān al-Ṣafā (Brethren of Purity)
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment