The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age - Softcover

Yates, Frances Amelia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0744800013 ISBN 13: 9780744800012

Publisher: Ark Paperbacks, 1983

Synopsis

Describes the beliefs and images connected with the Christian Cabala and general occult philosophy during Queen Elizabeth I's reign, and discusses their influence on Elizabethan painting and poetry

About this title

About the Author:

Dame Francis Yates (1899-1981) was Reader in the History of the Renaissance at the Warburg Institute, University of London. The leading Renaissance scholar of her time, she was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1977 in recognition of her services to Renaissance studies. Her other publications include The Art of Memory and The Rosicrucian Enlightenment.

Review:

'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 than she to recreate, from unexpected material, the intellectual life of past ages.' – Hugh Trevor-Roper

'A welcome new edition of this classic work ...' – Network

About this edition

• Publisher: Ark Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0744800013
• ISBN 13: 9780744800012
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 217