Description |
256 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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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.
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Magicians -- Biography.
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Faust, -approximately 1540. (OCoLC)fst01818112
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Magicians. (OCoLC)fst01005551
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Indexed Term |
Faust d. ca. 1540 |
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Magicians Biography |
Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Added Author |
Baron, Frank, blurb writer.
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ISBN |
9780750950909 (hbk.) |
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0750950900 (hbk.) |
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