General Collected Works     No. 9   O.P.Grell (ed.), Paracelsus : The Man and his Reputation, his Ideas and their Transformation. [Studies in the History of Christian Thought, No. 85] Brill, Leiden, 1998. ISBN 90-04-11177-8  Hard cover,  356pp. Price, 206.5 NLG = 121.5 $       A collection of papers read in the symposium held at Glasgow University by Prof. O.P.Grell, a specialist on Danish paracelsian Petrus Severinus.  All the articles are in English. It's a good showcase of the paracelsian scholarship of post-Debus era. It's a also good window to look at German recent tendency of Paracelsian study.    

O.P.Grell, "Introduction : The Enigma of Paracelsus." pp. 1-18.
 
Stephen Pumfrey, "The Spagyric Art : Or, the Impossible Work of Separationg Pure from Impure Paracelsianisme : A Historiographical Analysis." pp. 21-51.
 
Andrew Cunningham, "Paracelsus Fat and Thin : Thought on Reputations and Realities."pp. 53-77.
 
Dietlinde Golz, "Paracelsus as a Guiding Model - Historians and their Object." pp. 79-100.
 
Herbert Breger,"Nature and Character." pp. 101-115.
 
Hugh Trevor-Roper, "Paracelsianism Made Political, 1600-1650." pp. 119-133.
 
Bruce T.Moran, "Medecine, Alchemy and the Control of Language : Andreas Libavius versus the Neoparacelsians." pp. 135-149.
 
Carlos Gilly, ""Theophrastica sancta"- Paracelsianism as a Religion in Conflict with the Established Churches." pp. 151-185.
 
Hartmut Rudolph, "Hohenheim's Anthropology in the Light of his Writings on the Eucharist." pp. 187-206.
 
Ute Gause, "On Paracelsus's Epistemology in his Early Theological Writings and in his Astronomia Magna." pp.  207-221.
 
A.G.Debus, "Paracelsianism and the Diffusion of the Chemical Philosophy in Early Modern Europe." pp. 225-244.
 
Ole Peter Grell, "The Acceptable Face of Paracelsianism : The Legacy of Idea Medicinae and the Introduction of Paraclesianism into Early Modern Denmark." pp. 245-267.
 
J.R.R.Christie, "The Paraclesian Body." pp. 269-291.
 
Francis McKee, "The Paracelsian Kitchen." pp. 293-308.
 
Heinz Schott, ""Invisible Diseases" - Imagination and Magnetism : Paracelsus and the Conseauences." pp. 309-321.
 
Bibliography, pp. 323-
 
Index, pp.343-

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