Berthold of Moosburg's hermetic sources

• Antonella Sannino ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Lecce
• Localización: Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, ISSN 0075-4390, Nº 63, 2000, págs. 243-258
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The writer examines the Hermetic sources used by Berthold of Moosburg in his Expositio super Elementationem Theologicam Procli, a commentary on Proclus's Elements of Theology written between 1340 and 1361. She considers the significant role played by three Hermetic sources in the commentary: the Asclepius, the Liber XXIV philosophorum, and the Liber de VI rerum principiis.She links the sources to three main themes: cosmology, idolatrous theurgy, and the Trinity. The Hermetic references in Berthold's commentary are listed in an apppendix.