TY - BOOK ID - 23390461 TI - Renaissance and rebirth PY - 2009 VL - 24 SN - 9789004177642 9004177647 9786612602863 9047444817 1282602861 9789047444817 9781282602861 PB - Leiden Boston Brill DB - UniCat KW - Transmigration KW - Reincarnation KW - Future life KW - Soul KW - Cabala. KW - Renaissance KW - Philosophy, Medieval. KW - Jewish philosophy. KW - Réincarnation KW - Vie future KW - Ame KW - Kabbale KW - Philosophie médiévale KW - Philosophie juive KW - Judaism. KW - Judaism KW - Judaïsme KW - Jews KW - Philosophy, Jewish KW - Philosophy, Israeli KW - Medieval philosophy KW - Scholasticism KW - Cabbala KW - Kábala KW - Kabalah KW - Kabbala KW - Kabbalah KW - Qabalah KW - Jewish literature KW - Magic KW - Mysticism KW - Soul (Judaism) KW - Philosophy KW - Cabala UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:23390461 AB - Metempsychosis was a prominent element in Renaissance conceptualizations of the human being, the universe, and the place of the human person in the universe. A variety of concepts emerged in debates about metempsychosis: human to human reincarnation, human to vegetal, human to animal, and human to angelic transmigration. As a complex and changing doctrine, metempsychosis gives us a well-placed window for viewing the complex and dynamic contours of Jewish thought in late fifteenth century Italy; as such, it enables us to evaluate Jewish thought in relation to non-Jewish Italian developments. This book addresses the problematic question of the roles and achievements of Jews who lived in Italy in the development of Renaissance culture in its Jewish and its Christian dimensions. ER -