Frances Yates And The Hermetic Tradition

Author : Marjorie G. Jones
Publisher : Nicolas-Hays, Inc.
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780892541331

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Frances Yates and the Hermetic Tradition by Marjorie G. Jones Pdf

This is the first full-length biography of British historian Frances Yates, author of such acclaimed works as Giordano Bruno and The Hermetic Tradition and The Art of Memory, one of the most influential non-fiction books of the twentieth century. Jones's book explores Yates' remarkable life and career and her interest in the mysterious figure of Giordano Bruno and the influence of the Hermetic tradition on the culture of the Renaissance. Her revolutionary way of viewing history, literature, art, and the theater as integral parts of the cultural picture of the time period did much to shape modern interdisciplinary approaches to history and literary criticism. Jones focuses not only on the particulars of Yates' life, but also sheds light on the tradition of female historians of her time and their contributions to Renaissance scholarship. In addition to her insightful commentary on Yates' academic work, Jones quotes from Frances? diaries and the writings of those who were close to her, to shed light on Yates' private life. This biography is significant for those with an interest in literary criticism, women's history, scientific history, or the intellectual atmosphere of post-war Britain, as well as those interested in the Hermetic tradition.

Author : Frances Amelia Yates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:934234870

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Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances Amelia Yates Pdf

Author : Frances A Yates
Publisher : Random House
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781448104130

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The Art of Memory by Frances A Yates Pdf

This unique and brilliant book is a history of human knowledge. Before the invention of printing, a trained memory was of vital importance. Based on a technique of impressing 'places' and 'images' on the mind, the ancient Greeks created an elaborate memory system which in turn was inherited by the Romans and passed into the European tradition, to be revived, in occult form, during the Renaissance. Frances Yates sheds light on Dante’s Divine Comedy, the form of the Shakespearian theatre and the history of ancient architecture; The Art of Memory is an invaluable contribution to aesthetics and psychology, and to the history of philosophy, of science and of literature.

Author : Frances Yates
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136864124

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Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances Yates Pdf

Giordano Bruno is known as the Prophet of the New Age, and his vision of an infinite universe grounded in science is increasingly celebrated. One of the principal forces behind his rediscovery was the great British historian Frances Yates. In calling attention to Giordono Bruno, she paved the way for a revaluation of the esoteric influences at play during the onset of the modern era. Today, when traditional answers about the universe and our place within it are under increasing scrutiny, Giordono Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition proves itself a true classic for our time.

Author : Frances Amelia Yates
Publisher : London : Routledge and K. Paul
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : History
ISBN : 0415220459

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Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances Amelia Yates Pdf

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : F.A. Yates
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136353963

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Rosicrucian Enlightenment by F.A. Yates Pdf

This is Volume IV of the selected works of Frances Yates. In the early 17th century, a new movement was proclaimed throughout Europe, announcing the universal reform of religion, science, art, and society. The main proponents of this movement were the esoteric Rosicrucians. Europe was a world in transition and Rosicrucianism was but the latest movement to capture the public imagination. Concerned with spiritual illumination and intellectual knowledge the movement continued to have widespread influence long after it was supposedly over, as can be traced in the works of Isaac Newton and Fraof modern science and medicine, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment has had a tremendous impact on our understanding of the western esoteric tradition.

Author : Frances Yates
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134524419

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The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age by Frances Yates Pdf

It is hard to overestimate the importance of the contribution made by Dame Frances Yates to the serious study of esotericism and the occult sciences. To her work can be attributed the contemporary understanding of the occult origins of much of Western scientific thinking, indeed of Western civilization itself. The Occult Philosophy of the Elizabethan Age was her last book, and in it she condensed many aspects of her wide learning to present a clear, penetrating, and, above all, accessible survey of the occult movements of the Renaissance, highlighting the work of John Dee, Giordano Bruno, and other key esoteric figures. The book is invaluable in illuminating the relationship between occultism and Renaissance thought, which in turn had a profound impact on the rise of science in the seventeenth century. Stunningly written and highly engaging, Yates' masterpiece is a must-read for anyone interested in the occult tradition.

Author : F A Yates
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136353611

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Art Of Memory by F A Yates Pdf

First Published in 1999. This title is the third volume in the ten-volume set titled the Selected Works of Frances Yates. Greyscale illustrations and figures are included throughout - alongside the related descriptive work where applicable. The art in this volume seeks to memorise through a technique of impressing 'places' and 'images' on memory. It has usually been classed as 'mnemotechnics', which appears an unimportant branch of human activity. However, the author discusses in this title that the manipulation of images in memory must always, to some extent, involve the psyche.

Author : Frances A. Yates
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317973782

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Giordano Bruno & Hermetic Trad by Frances A. Yates Pdf

First published in 1999. This is volume II which includes the English translation of Giordano Bruno's selected works of the Hermetic Tradition, from 1964.

Author : Glenn Alexander Magee
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0801474507

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Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition by Glenn Alexander Magee Pdf

Glenn Alexander Magee's pathbreaking book argues that Hegel was decisively influenced by the Hermetic tradition, a body of thought with roots in Greco-Roman Egypt. Magee traces the influence on Hegel of such Hermetic thinkers as Baader, Böhme, Bruno, and Paracelsus, and fascination with occult and paranormal phenomena. Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition covers Hegel's philosophical corpus and shows that his engagement with Hermeticism lasted throughout his career and intensified during his final years in Berlin. Viewing Hegel as a Hermetic thinker has implications for a more complete understanding of the modern philosophical tradition, and German idealism in particular.

Author : Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253203414

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Rabelais and His World by Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin Pdf

This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) examines popular humor and folk culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. One of the essential texts of a theorist who is rapidly becoming a major reference in contemporary thought, Rabelais and His World is essential reading for anyone interested in problems of language and text and in cultural interpretation.

Author : Frances Amelia Yates
Publisher : London : Routledge & K. Paul
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : England
ISBN : 0710063709

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Theatre of the World by Frances Amelia Yates Pdf

"The book is primarily centered on John Dee and Robert Fludd" - Preface.

Author : Frances A. Yates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:247569289

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Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances A. Yates Pdf

Author : John Bossy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300094515

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Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair by John Bossy Pdf

This book tells a true detective story set mainly in Elizabethan London during the years of cold war just before the Armada of 1588. The mystery is the identity of a spy working in a foreign embassy to frustrate Catholic conspiracy and propaganda aimed at the overthrow of Queen Elizabeth and her government. The suspects in the case are the inmates of the house, an old building in the warren of streets and gardens between Fleet Street and the Thames. These include the ambassador, a civilized Frenchman, his wife, his daughter, his secretary, his clerk and his priest, the tutor, the chef, the butler, and the concierge. They also include a runaway friar, the Neapolitan philosopher, poet, and comedian Giordano Bruno, who wrote masterpieces of Italian literature, who was later burned in Rome for his anti-papal opinions, and who has been revered in Italy for his honorable and heroic resistance to papal authority. Others in the cast are Queen Elizabeth, her formidable secretary of state Sir Francis Walsingham, and King Henry III of France; poets, courtiers, and scholars; statesmen, conspirators, go-betweens, and stool-pigeons. When not in London, the action takes place in Paris and Oxford; a good deal of it happens on the river Thames. The hero or villain, who calls himself Fagot, does his work most effectively, is not found out, and disappears. In the first part of the book these events are narrated. In the second the spy is identified and his story put together. John Bossy's brilliant research, backed by his forensic and literary skills, solves a centuries-old mystery. His book makes a major contribution to the political and intellectual history of the wars of religion in Europe and to the domestic history of Elizabethan England. Not least, it is compelling reading.

Author : Ingrid D. Rowland
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466895843

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Giordano Bruno by Ingrid D. Rowland Pdf

Giordano Bruno is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland's pathbreaking life of Bruno establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Galileo, a thinker whose vision of the world prefigures ours. By the time Bruno was burned at the stake as a heretic in 1600 on Rome's Campo dei Fiori, he had taught in Naples, Rome, Venice, Geneva, France, England, Germany, and the "magic Prague" of Emperor Rudolph II. His powers of memory and his provocative ideas about the infinity of the universe had attracted the attention of the pope, Queen Elizabeth—and the Inquisition, which condemned him to death in Rome as part of a yearlong jubilee. Writing with great verve and sympathy for her protagonist, Rowland traces Bruno's wanderings through a sixteenth-century Europe where every certainty of religion and philosophy had been called into question and shows him valiantly defending his ideas (and his right to maintain them) to the very end. An incisive, independent thinker just when natural philosophy was transformed into modern science, he was also a writer of sublime talent. His eloquence and his courage inspired thinkers across Europe, finding expression in the work of Shakespeare and Galileo. Giordano Bruno allows us to encounter a legendary European figure as if for the first time.