Thesis Chapters by Jean Sanchez
Lois des hommes, lois des astres, lois de Dieu : Théologiens, magistrats et philosophes face à la question de l’astrologie en France (1560 -1628), 2022
Lois des hommes, lois des astres, lois de Dieu : Théologiens, magistrats et philosophes face à la question de l’astrologie en France (1560 -1628), 2022
Papers by Jean Sanchez
Lias. Journal of Early Modern Intellectual Culture and its Sources, 2020
In 1629, a strange treatise was published in Paris: the Curiositez inouyes ("unheard-of curiositi... more In 1629, a strange treatise was published in Paris: the Curiositez inouyes ("unheard-of curiosities"), a survey of the astrology of the ancient Hebrews and the talismanic art of the Persians. Its author, the Orientalist Jacques Gaffarel (1601-1681), was a rising figure of French scholarship and a friend of Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655) and Gabriel Naudé (1600-1653). The originality of his treatise, one of the last defences of astrology authored by a French scholar in the seventeenth century, lay in its antiquarian approach to knowledge based mainly on a corpus of rabbinic sources. In this article, I address one of the essential aspects of the Curiositez inouyes: the re-establishment of astrology based on the doctrines of the ancient Hebrews. I show how Gaffarel used, not without ambiguity, the rhetoric and resources of historical scholarship to introduce a new legitimisation of astrology through the Jewish Kabbalah. Through this analysis I wish to explore how the attitude toward Antiquity shaped the conception of astrology in early modern France.
Talks by Jean Sanchez
Conference Presentations by Jean Sanchez
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Conferences and workshops by Jean Sanchez
Paris, ENS, 18 December 2018
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