PREFACE -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- I. Abbreviations for Champier's Titles -- II. Some Other Sixteenth Century Editions containing Titles by Champier -- III. Abbreviations for Secondary Sources Frequently Cited -- INTRODUCTORY ESSAY. THE PROBLEM OF THE OCCULTIST TRADITION IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE -- CHAPTER ONE. A BRIEF LIFE OF SYMPHORIEN CHAMPIER: HIS CAREER AND CHARACTER -- I. His Adventurous Career -- II. His Disputatious Character -- Arena One: Medicine -- Arena Two: Humanism -- CHAPTER TWO. CHAMPIER'S USE AND CRITICISM OF THE SOURCES OF THE OCCULTIST TRADITION -- I. The Greek and Latin Classics -- II. The 'prisca theologia' -- III. Early Christianity -- IV. Islam -- V. Scholasticism and the Later Middle Ages -- VI. The Renaissance -- VII. The Dyalogus... in magicarum artium destructionem -- CHAPTER THREE. CHAMPIER'S CRITIQUE OF OCCULTISM -- I. Some Preconceptions: The World-Soul and the Notion of Middle Things -- II. Natural Magic -- III. Demonology and Demonic Magic -- IV. Astrology -- V. Divination and Dreams -- VI. Occult Medicine -- VII. Alchemy and Cabala -- CONCLUDING ESSAY. CHAMPIER'S RECEPTION OF THE OCCULTIST TRADITION -- APPENDIX. A FACSIMILE AND AN ANNOTATED TRANSLATION OF CHAMPIER'S -- Dyalogus...in magicarum artium destructionem -- Notes to the Appendix -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF CHAMPIER'S WORKS -- INDEX OF PROPER NAMES -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS.