The announcement for the York 2015-03-05 conference on
Magic and Intellectual History is at
http://isih.history.ox.ac.uk/?p=4386 , and the programme is at
http://www.york.ac.uk/crems/events/events/2014-15/magic/ .
There you have:
Quote:10.00-11.30 - Natural Magic
Rinotas Athanasios (Athens), Compatibility between Philosophy and Magic in the Work of Albertus Magnus
Ovanes Akopyan(Warwick), From Marsilio Ficino to the Bible: Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples and his circle on magic, prisca theologia and Aristotle
Allison Kavey (CUNY), Agrippa's Magical Cosmology
11.30-12.00 Coffee
12.00-1.30 - Magicians: Napier(s)? Campanella?
Alex Corrigan (Edinburgh), Was John Napier of Merchiston a Magician?
Ofer Hadass (Haifa), "An Angell's Sight": Religion and Magic in Richard Napier’s Medical Practice
Jean-Paul De Lucca (University of Malta), Tommaso Campanella between Renaissance Magic and Modern Science
Lunch, 1.30-2.30
2.30-4.00 - Reformation, Religion and Magic
Frank Klaassen (Saskatchewan) Magic and the English Reformation: A reconsideration
Urszula Szulakowska (Leeds) Roman Catholic traces in Protestant Alchemy: Robert Fludd
Francis Young (Ely) Liturgical Change and Ceremonial Magic in Reformation England
4.00-4.15Coffee
4.15-5.15 - Magicians? John Dee and Kenelm Digby
Todd Borlik (Huddersfield), Magic as Technological Dominion: John Dee and the Draining of the English Fens
Mark A. Waddell (Michigan State), Sympathy and Lies: Plausibility, Credibility, and the Weapon Salve in Early Modern England
5.15: Keynote
Stephen Clucas (Birbeck, University of London), Magic and intellectual history: the problem of transgression
This symposium is part of the Thomas Browne Seminar.
Seen thanks to
Agnes Karpinski on G+.