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.