Paracelsus : : the Man and His Reputation, His Ideas and Their Transformation / / edited by Ole P. Grell.

• Superior document: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions Series ; Volume 85
• TeilnehmendeR: Grell, Ole Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Brill,, [1998]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; Volume 85.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (365 pages)

This volume offers a revisionist interpretation of Paracelsus and Paracelsianism. It points to the need for a new historiographical approach to the man and his ideas, while demonstrating the value of seeing them in their totallity, as well as in their proper historical text.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Introduction The Enigma of Paracelsus -- Part One The Historical Paracelsus -- Chapter One The Spagyric Art -- Or, The Impossible Work of Separating Pure from Impure Paracelsianism: a historiographical analysis -- Chapter Two Paracelsus Fat and Thin: Thoughts on Reputations and Realities -- Chapter Three Paracelsus as a Guiding Model - Historians and their Object -- Chapter Four Nature and Character -- Part Two The Social and Religious Paracelsus -- Chapter Five Paracelsianism made Political, 1600-1650 -- Chapter Six Medicine, Alchemy, and the Control of Language: Andreas Libavius versus the Neoparacelsians -- Chapter Seven 'Theophrastia Sancta' - Paracelsianism as a Religion in Conflict with the Established Churches -- Chapter Eight Hohenheim's Anthropology in the Light of his Writings on the Eucharist -- Chapter Nine On Paracelsus's Epistemology in his Early Theological Writings and in his Astronomia Magna -- Part Three The Philosophical and Medical Paracelsus -- Chapter Ten Paracelsianism and the Diffusion of the Chemical Philosophy in Early Modern Europe -- Chapter Eleven The Acceptable Face of Paracelsianism: The Legacy of Idea medicinae and the Introduction of Paracelsianism into Early Modern Denmark -- Chapter Twelve The Paracelsian Body -- Chapter Thirteen The Paracelsian Kitchen -- Chapter Fourteen 'Invisible Diseases' - Imagination and Magnetism: Paracelsus and the Consequences -- Consolidated List of Literature -- Index of Names -- Index of Places -- Index of Subjects -- Studies in the History of Christian Thought.