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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)
Available as a single volume or as part of the 10 volume set Frances Yeats: Selected Works
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.
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Preface | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
Pt. I | The Occult Philosophy in Renaissance and Reformation | |
1 | Medieval Christian Cabala: The Art of Ramon Lull | 11 |
2 | The Occult Philosophy in the Italian Renaissance: Pico della Mirandola | 19 |
3 | The Occult Philosophy in the Reformation: Johannes Reuchlin | 27 |
4 | The Cabalist Friar of Venice: Francesco Giorgi | 33 |
5 | The Occult Philosophy and Magic: Henry Cornelius Agrippa | 43 |
6 | The Occult Philosophy and Melancholy: Durer and Agrippa | 57 |
7 | Reactions against the Occult Philosophy: the Witch Craze | 71 |
Pt. II | The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age | |
8 | John Dee: Christian Cabalist | 92 |
9 | Spenser's Neoplatonism and the Occult Philosophy: John Dee and The Faerie Queene | 111 |
10 | Elizabethan England and the Jews | 128 |
11 | The Reaction: Christopher Marlowe on Conjurors, Imperialists and Jews | 135 |
12 | Shakespeare and Christian Cabala: Francesco Giorgi and the Merchant of Venice | 148 |
13 | Agrippa and Elizabethan Melancholy: George Chapman's Shadow of Night | 157 |
14 | Shakespearean Fairies, Witches, Melancholy: King Lear and the Demons | 172 |
15 | Prospero: The Shakespearean Magus | 186 |
Pt. III | The Occult Philosophy and Rosicrucianism and Puritanism. The Return of the Jews to England | |
16 | Christian Cabala and Rosicrucianism | 197 |
17 | The Occult Philosophy and Puritanism: John Milton | 206 |
18 | The Return of the Jews to England | 213 |
Epilogue | 219 | |
Notes | 223 | |
Index | 245 |