Symphorien Champier and the Reception of the Occultist Tradition in Renaissance France

PREFACE\nLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS\nLIST OF ABBREVIATIONS\nI. Abbreviations for Champier\'s Titles\nII. Some Other Sixteenth Century Editions containing Titles by Champier\nIII. Abbreviations for Secondary Sources Frequently Cited\nINTRODUCTORY ESSAY. THE PROBLEM OF THE OCCULTIST TRADITION IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE\nCHAPTER ONE. A BRIEF LIFE OF SYMPHORIEN CHAMPIER: HIS CAREER AND CHARACTER\nI. His Adventurous Career\nII. His Disputatious Character\nArena One: Medicine\nArena Two: Humanism\nCHAPTER TWO. CHAMPIER\'S USE AND CRITICISM OF THE SOURCES OF THE OCCULTIST TRADITION\nI. The Greek and Latin Classics\nII. The ‘prisca theologia‘\nIII. Early Christianity\nIV. Islam\nV. Scholasticism and the Later Middle Ages\nVI. The Renaissance\nVII. The Dyalogus... in magicarum artium destructionem\nCHAPTER THREE. CHAMPIER\'S CRITIQUE OF OCCULTISM\nI. Some Preconceptions: The World-Soul and the Notion of Middle Things\nII. Natural Magic\nIII. Demonology and Demonic Magic\nIV. Astrology\nV. Divination and Dreams\nVI. Occult Medicine\nVII. Alchemy and Cabala\nCONCLUDING ESSAY. CHAMPIER\'S RECEPTION OF THE OCCULTIST TRADITION\nAPPENDIX. A FACSIMILE AND AN ANNOTATED TRANSLATION OF CHAMPIER\'S\nDyalogus...in magicarum artium destructionem\nNotes to the Appendix\nBIBLIOGRAPHY\nINDEX OF CHAMPIER\'S WORKS\nINDEX OF PROPER NAMES\nINDEX OF SUBJECTS