1. Einleitung . . 13
2. Übersicht über die Forschung . . 17
3. Giacomino und seine Zeit . . 29
4. Der Aufbau von De Jerusalem und De Babilonia . . 43
5. Himmel und Hölle als Städte . . 53
6. Schluss
7. Literaturverzeichnis . . 115

Anhang I: Synopse des Aufbaus von De Jerusalem und De Babilonia . . 123
Anhang II: Neuitalienische Prosafassung . . 129
Anhang III: Deutsche Prosaübersetzung . . 147
Register . . 165

Preface ix
Acknowledgments XVI
A Note on Soviet Administrative Structure xvii
Introduction 1
Lazar Kaganovich: The Career of a Stalinist Commissar 21
1931 Introduction 37
Documents 1-23 49
1932. Introduction IO4
Documents 24-59 114
1933 Introduction 186
Documents 60-85 195
1934 Introduction 236
Documents 86-111 245
1935 Introduction 289
Documents 112.-115 296
1936 Introduction 315
Documents 126-177 322
Appendix 373
Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations 387
Brief Biographies 391
Index 417
Illustrations follow page 244

Editor's preface . . VII-XII
Note on entries, cross-references and bibliographies . . XIII
List of contributors . . XIV-XIX
Timeline . . XX
Confucianism . . 1-12
A-N entries . . 13-464

Translator's Note Vll
Introduction 1
1. The Ancient Roots of the "Other" Egypt 5
2. Foreign Wonderland on the Nile: The Greek Writers 19
3. Power and Influence of tne stars 26
4. Alchemy: The Art of Transformation 34
5- Gnosis: Creation as Haw 43
6. Hermetism: Thoth as Hermes Trismegistus 48
7. Egypt of the Magical Arts 55
8. The Spread of Egyptian Cults: Isis and Osiris 64
9. Medieval Traditions 73
10. The Renaissance of Hermetism and Hieroglyphs 83
11. Travels to Egypt: Wonder upon Wonder 92
12. Triumphs of Erudition: Kircher, Spencer, and Cudworth 98
13. "Reformation of the Whole Wide World": The Rosicrucians 106
14. The Ideal of a Fraternity: The Freemasons 116
15. Goethe and Romanticism: "Thinking Hieroglyphically" 128
16. Theosophy and Anthroposophv 141
17. Pyramids, Sphinx, Mummies: A Curse on the Pharaohs 155
18. Egypt a la Mode: Modern Egyptosophy and Afrocentrism 173
19- Outlook: Egypt as Hope and Alternative 189
Chronology 203
Glossary 207
Bibliography 209
Index 221

List of Figures . . IX
Acknowledgments . . XI

Introduction . . 1
Saint Juliana: Anonymous, ca. 1200 . . 9
Saints Agatha, Lucy.Justine, and Barbara: The South English Legendary . . 27
Saint Anastasia: The North English Legendary . . 44
Saint Cecilia: Geoffrey Chaucer . . 49
Saint Christine: William Paris . . 61
Saint Eugenia: The Scottish Legendary . . 70
Saint Winifred: John Mirk . . 82
Saints Margaret and Petronilla: John Lydgate . . 86
Saints Agnes and Dorothy: Osbern Bokenham . . 99
Saint Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins: Anonymous, ca. 1485 . . 164

APPENDICES
Appendix A Lives of Saints Justine and Barbara: The South English Legendary . . 173
Appendix B The Life of Saint Katherine . . 184

Preface . . 5
Introduction . . 7

SOMMA-VESUVIUS . . 9
BACKDROP FOR THE ERUPTION . . 41
PORTENTOUS EVENTS BETWEEN A.D. 62 AND 79 . . 71
THE ERUPTION . . 77
THE DISCOVERY OF HUMAN BODIES IN POMPEII . . 109
POMPEIAN STORIES AND LEGENDS . . 113

PRINCIPAL ERUPTIONS OF VESUVIUS FROM 25,000 YEARS AGO UNTIL 1631 . . 125
PRINCIPAL ERUPTIONS OF VESUVIUS IN THE PERIOD 1631-1944 . . 126
GLOSSARY OF VOLCANOLOGY . . 127
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY . . 129
INDEX . . 131