Kabbalah in Italy, 1280-1510 : A Survey.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Kabbalah: Introductory Remarks -- 2. Abraham Abulafia and Ecstatic Kabbalah -- 3. Abraham Abulafia's Activity in Italy -- 4. Ecstatic Kabbalah as an Experiential Lore -- 5. Abraham Abulafia's Hermeneutics -- 6. Eschatological Themes and Divine Names in Abulafia's Kabbalah -- 7. Abraham Abulafia and R. Menahem ben Benjamin: Thirteenth-Century Kabbalistic and Ashkenazi Manuscripts in Italy -- 8. R. Menahem ben Benjamin Recanati -- 9. Menahem Recanati as a Theosophical-Theurgical Kabbalist -- 10. Menahem Recanati's Hermeneutics -- 11. Ecstatic Kabbalah from the Fourteenth through Mid-Fifteenth Centuries -- 12. The Kabbalistic-Philosophical-Magical Exchanges in Italy -- 13. Prisca Theologia: R. Isaac Abravanel, Leone Ebreo, and R. Elijah Hayyim of Genazzano -- 14. R. Yohanan ben Yitzhaq Alemanno -- 15. Jewish Mystical Thought in Lorenzo il Magnifico's Florence -- 16. Other Mystical and Magical Literatures in Renaissance Florence -- 17. Spanish Kabbalists in Italy after the Expulsion -- 18. Two Diverging Types of Kabbalah in Late-Fifteenth-Century Italy -- 19. Jewish Kabbalah in Christian Garb -- 20. Anthropoids from the Middle Ages to Renaissance Italy -- 21. Astromagical Pneumatic Anthropoids from Medieval Spain to Renaissance Italy -- 22. The Trajectory of Eastern Kabbalah and Its Reverberations in Italy -- Concluding Remarks -- Appendix 1. The Angel Named Righteous: From R. 'Amittai of Oria to Erfurt and Rome -- Appendix 2. The Infant Experiment: On the Search for the First Language in Italy -- Appendix 3. R. Yohanan Alemanno's Study Program -- Appendix 4. Magic Temples and Cities in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Mas'udi, Ibn Zarza, Alemanno -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Manuscripts -- B -- C -- F -- H -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- T -- V -- Index of Titles -- A -- B -- C -- D.

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