Peter Forshaw

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Assistant Professor/ Senior Lecturer

Education

My research interests are in the intellectual and cultural history of learned magic and its relation to religion, science and medicine in early modern Europe; occult forms of communication, the interplay between text and image, and the whole question of symbolic representation by means of emblematic figures, hieroglyphs, cabalistic notae, and so forth. More generally, all forms of occult philosophy (alchemy, astrology and Christian Cabala, in particular) and ritual activity, from antiquity to the early modern period.