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Author Ruickbie, Leo.

Title Faustus : the life and times of a Renaissance magician / Leo Ruickbe.

Imprint Stroud : History, 2009.

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 Axe Special Collections Baron  809.92 F275Br 2009    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 256 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Faustus is the real story behind the legend. It is the story of a sixteenth-century scandal, of a man who claimed mastery of the forbidden magical arts and dared to rival the miracles attributed to Jesus. He evoked uproar and was accused of heinous crimes. But Faustus was not a charlatan; nor was he in league with the Devil. To find the real Faustus is to find the true history of his age, and Leo Ruickbe expertly takes the reader on a tour of war-torn Italy, Reformation Wittenberg and the magnificence of Charles V's court. The life of the legend becomes as real as any living person.
Contents 1 A Renaissance Scandal 8 -- 2 Born of the Devil (1466) 18 -- 3 Diabolical Faculty (1472-1489) 28 -- 4 Magus Arrives (1500-1506) 36 -- 5 Sex Crimes in Kreuznach (1507) 48 -- 6 Harrowing Times (1507-1512) 56 -- 7 Hellbrand of Erfurt (1513) 67 -- 8 Meeting Mephistopheles (1514) 80 -- 9 Deal with the Devil (1514) 88 -- 10 Philosophers' Stone (1516) 98 -- 11 Court Magician (1519-1522) 110 -- 12 Planets Collide (1523-1525) 125 -- 13 All the Victories in Italy (1521-1527) 137 -- 14 On the Road to Exile (1527-1528) 149 -- 15 Entertaining the Emperor (1529-1530) 163 -- 16 Fugitive (1530-1534) 173 -- 17 Baptism of Blood (1534-1535) 188 -- 18 Beyond the Black Forest (1535-1536) 199 -- 19 Wages of Sin (1537-1538?) 209.
Subject Faust, -approximately 1540.
Magicians -- Biography.
Faust, -approximately 1540. (OCoLC)fst01818112
Magicians. (OCoLC)fst01005551
Indexed Term Faust d. ca. 1540
Magicians Biography
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Added Author Baron, Frank, blurb writer.
ISBN 9780750950909 (hbk.)
0750950900 (hbk.)

 
    
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