The Occult Sciences in Byzantium

The Occult Sciences in Byzantium
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By:"Paul Magdalino","Maria V. Mavroudi"
"Alchemie"
Published on 2006 by La Pomme d'or

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This volume represents the first attempt to examine occult sciences as a distinct category of Byzantine intellectual culture. It is concerned with both the reality and the image of the occult sciences in Byzantium, and seeks, above all, to represent them in their social and cultural context as a historical phenomenon. The eleven essays demonstrate that Byzantium was not marginal to the scientific culture of the Middle Ages, and that the occult sciences were not marginal to the learned culture of the medieval Byzantine world.

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