The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age, Volume 7First published in 1999. This is volume VII of ten of the collected works of Frances Yates. This book is a strictly historical study, not an enquiry into 'the occult' in general, which I am certainly not qualified to undertake. It includes what was known as 'the occult philosophy' in the Renaissance. This philosophy, or outlook, was compounded of Hermeticism as revived by Marsilio Ficino, to which Pico della Mirandola added a Christianised version of Jewish Cabala. These two trends, associated together, form what Yates calls 'the occult philosophy'. |
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User Review - PaulBaldowski - LibraryThingInteresting treatment of religion, society, and the occult, marred by Yates' flights of fantasy and tenuous connections in the second part of the book. Read full review
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User Review - Poquette - LibraryThingMuch, much more than an introduction to Elizabethan Age philosophy, The Occult Philosophy is divided into three parts. The first part lays the medieval philosophical groundwork going back as far as ... Read full review
Contents
THE OCCULT PHILOSOPHY IN RENAISSANCE | 4 |
Francesco Giorgi | 29 |
the Witch | 61 |
Introduction | 75 |
George | 135 |
King | 147 |
The Shakespearean Magus | 159 |
THE OCCULT PHILOSOPHY AND ROSICRUCIANISM | 165 |
John Milton | 177 |
The Return of the Jews to England | 183 |
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| Title | The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age, Volume 7 Volume 7 of Frances Yates Selected Works Volume 7 of Frances Yates, Selected works Volume 7 of Selected Works: “The” Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age, Frances A. Yates Volume 7 of Selected works, Frances Yates Volume 7 of Selections, Frances Amelia Yates The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age, Frances Amelia Yates, ISBN 0415220432, 9780415220439 Volume 7 of Works, Frances Amelia Yates |
| Author | Frances A. Yates |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0415220505, 9780415220507 |
| Length | 217 pages |
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