Kabbalah in Italy, 1280-1510
Subtitle: a survey
By: Moshe Idel
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9780300126266
Subjects: Mysticism; Cabala; Judaism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 467-475) and index.
Table of contents: title: Kabbalah : introductory remarks; title: Abraham Abulafia and ecstatic kabbalah; title: Abraham Abulafia's activity in Italy; title: Ecstatic kabbalah as an experiential lore; title: Abraham Abulafia's hermeneutics; title: Eschatological themes and divine names in Abulafia's kabbalah; title: Abraham Abulafia and R. Menahem ben Benjamin : thirteenth-century kabbalistic and Ashkenazi manuscripts in italy; title: R. Menahem ben Benjamin Recanati; title: Menahem Recanati as a theosophical-theurgical kabbalist; title: Menahem Recanati's hermeneutics; title: Ecstatic kabbalah from the fourteenth through mid-fifteenth centuries; title: The kabbalistic-philosophical-magical exchanges in Italy; title: Prisca theologia : R. Isaac Abravanel, Leone Ebreo, and R. Elijah Hayyim of Genazzano; title: R. Yohanan ben Yitzhaq Alemanno; title: Jewish mystical thought in Lorenzo il Magnifico's Florence; title: Other mystical and magical literatures in Renaissance Florence; title: Spanish kabbalists in Italy after the expulsion; title: Diverging types of kabbalah in late-fifteenth-century Italy; title: Jewish kabbalah in Christian garb; title: Anthropoids from the Middle Ages to Renaissance Italy; title: Astromagical pneumatic anthropoids from medieval Spain to Renaissance Italy; title: The trajectory of eastern kabbalah and its reverberations in Italy; title: Concluding remarks.