Renaissance Magic
Shards, Fragments and Totems has profiled an amazing sounding radio program by Melvyn Bragg on BBC Radio 4 about Renaissance Magic.
…why did magic appeal so strongly to the Renaissance mind? And how did the scholarly Magus, who became a feature of the period, manage to escape prosecution and relate his work to science and the Church? – Programme Details
Even more interesting is what Paul from SF&T has to say about the opinions of one the main scholars in the field of Renaissance Magic
“Its thesis is as startling as Yates is respected (she is THE hardcore authority on the history of Renaissance of philosophy and art): that the Renaissance, far more than being simply a re-discovery of classical sources (though this was of course the central conceptual input) or a product of Arab technology (the use of the number zero for example, which was also covered in this series), was, in intention and in effect, a full-on pagan revival. Over and again, Yates demonstrates that the mantle of Catholicism, within which Classical themes were deployed, was largely a cover under which full-on practical magick flourished.”
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