Synopsis
A history of the role that the occult has played in the formation of modern science and medicine, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment has had a tremendous impact on our understanding of the western esoteric tradition. Beautifully illustrated, it remains one of those rare works of scholarship which the general reader simply cannot afford to ignore.
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Dame Frances Yates (1899 - 1981). English scholar who brought about the revival of interest in the historical role of the occult sciences, demonstrating their link with the rise of modern science.
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'Zestful, stylish, full of suggestive ways forward, Yates's bold reassessment of Rosicrucianism is provoking, exhilarating and indispensable.' - Diarmaid MacCulloch, BBC History Magazine
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Some creasing to spine. No signatures. Small price sticker on rear cover.; Paperback reprint. 315, [3] pages + plates. Page dimensions: 194 x 118mm. Yates was a Reader in the History of the Renaissance at the University of London. "Dr Frances Yates reveals that the ['Rosicrucian manifestos'] were connected with movements stirred up by John Deein Bohemia during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, and with contemporary movements in South Germany which culminated in the short-lived reigh of Frederick, Elector Palatinate, and his wife, the daughter of James I, as 'Winter' King and Queen of Bohemia." - from dust-jacket blurb of the first edition (not this copy). Cover illustration by Justin Todd. Selected chapter titles: The Bohemian Tragedy; The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosencreutz; The Palatinate Publisher; Francis Bacon 'Under the Shadow of Jehova's Wings'; Italian Liberals and Rosicrucian Manifestos; From the Invisible College to the Royal Society; Elias Ashmoile and the Dee Tradition; Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry; The Rosicrucian Enlightenment; Index. Seller Inventory # 22542
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The Rosicrucian Enlightenment. The Renaissance's mystic and secret dawn of knowledge.
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