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

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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:xi, 494 p.
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Table of 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
  • 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.