The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age

by Frances Yates

Overview

First 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’.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317828372
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/05/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	248
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Frances A. Yates

Table of Contents

Introduction; Part 1 The Occult Philosophy in Renaissance and Reformation; Chapter I Medieval Christian Cabala: The Art of Ramon Lull; Chapter II The Occult Philosophy in the Italian Renaissance: Pico della Mirandola; Chapter III The Occult Philosophy in the Reformation: Johannes Reuchlin; Chapter IV The Cabalist Friar of Venice: Francesco Giorgi; Chapter V The Occult Philosophy and Magic: Henry Cornelius Agrippa; chapter VI The Occult Philosophy and Melancholy: Dürer and Agrippa; chapter VII Reactions against the Occult Philosophy: The Witch Craze; Part 2 The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age; Introduction; chapter VIII John Dee: Christian Cabalist; Chapter IX Spenser’s Neoplatonism and the Occult Philosophy: John Dee and The Faerie Queene; Chapter X Elizabethan England and the Jews; Chapter XI The Reaction: Christopher Marlowe on Conjurors, Imperialists and Jews; Chapter XII Shakespeare and Christian Cabala: Francesco Giorgi and The Merchant of Venice; Chapter XIII Agrippa and Elizabethan Melancholy: George Chapman’s Shadow of Night; Chapter XIV Shakespearean Fairies, Witches, Melancholy: King Lear and the Demons; Chapter XV Prospero: The Shakespearean Magus; Part 3 The Occult Philosophy and Rosicrucianism and Puritanism: The Return of the Jews to England; Introduction; Chapter XVI Christian Cabala and Rosicrucianism; Chapter XVII The Occult Philosophy and Puritanism: John Milton; Chapter XVIII The Return of the Jews to England; Epilogue;

Editorial Reviews

'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

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