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Authors: Frances Amelia Yates
ISBN-13: 9780415220507, ISBN-10: 0415220505
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: December 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Frances Amelia Yates

Book Synopsis

Available as a single volume or as part of the 10 volume set Frances Yeats: Selected Works

Hugh Trevor-Roper

Among those who have explored the intellectual world of the sixteenth century, no one can rival Frances Yates. Wherever she looks, she illuminates . . . No one has done more that she to recreate, from unexpected material, the intellectual life of past ages.

Table of Contents

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Preface
Introduction1
Pt. IThe Occult Philosophy in Renaissance and Reformation
1Medieval Christian Cabala: The Art of Ramon Lull11
2The Occult Philosophy in the Italian Renaissance: Pico della Mirandola19
3The Occult Philosophy in the Reformation: Johannes Reuchlin27
4The Cabalist Friar of Venice: Francesco Giorgi33
5The Occult Philosophy and Magic: Henry Cornelius Agrippa43
6The Occult Philosophy and Melancholy: Durer and Agrippa57
7Reactions against the Occult Philosophy: the Witch Craze71
Pt. IIThe Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age
8John Dee: Christian Cabalist92
9Spenser's Neoplatonism and the Occult Philosophy: John Dee and The Faerie Queene111
10Elizabethan England and the Jews128
11The Reaction: Christopher Marlowe on Conjurors, Imperialists and Jews135
12Shakespeare and Christian Cabala: Francesco Giorgi and the Merchant of Venice148
13Agrippa and Elizabethan Melancholy: George Chapman's Shadow of Night157
14Shakespearean Fairies, Witches, Melancholy: King Lear and the Demons172
15Prospero: The Shakespearean Magus186
Pt. IIIThe Occult Philosophy and Rosicrucianism and Puritanism. The Return of the Jews to England
16Christian Cabala and Rosicrucianism197
17The Occult Philosophy and Puritanism: John Milton206
18The Return of the Jews to England213
Epilogue219
Notes223
Index245

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