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Michael Psellus on the Operation of Daemons (Hardcover)
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Michael Psellus on the Operation of Daemons (Hardcover)
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Michael Constantine Psellus (1018-1178 C.E) was one of the most
notable writers and philosophers of the Byzantine era. The
Byzantine domain was effectively the eastern Greek speaking part of
the Roman Empire centred on Byzantium (Constantinople, modern
Istanbul) which split off from the Latin West in 364 C.E. Its
intellectual legacies helped lay the foundations for the Italian
Renaissance. It was the fall of Constantinople in 1453 that
released a tide of Greek reading scholars into Western Europe,
particularly Venice. With them came much of the magical and
Hermetic knowledge which the Greeks in their turn had inherited
from the Egyptians. "The Key of Solomon" was one such text. It is
therefore essential to the understanding of such magical texts that
one understands exactly how the Byzantines understood the nature of
daemons. Psellus forms the bridge between the ancient world,
Byzantine Greek, and the grimoire conception of the nature of
daemons. Hailing from Constantinople, Psellus' career was an
illustrious and practical one, serving as a political advisor to a
succession of emperors, playing a decisive role in the transition
of power between various monarchs. He became the leading professor
at the newly founded University of Constantinople, bearing the
honorary title, 'Consul of the Philosophers'. He was the driving
force behind the university curriculum reform designed to emphasise
the Greek classics, especially Homeric literature. Psellus is
credited with the shift from Aristotelian thought to the Platonist
tradition, and was adept in politics, astronomy, medicine, music,
theology, jurisprudence, physics, grammar and history.
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