Summary
Frances Yates: Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age
As far as the history of thought is concerned, the Elizabethan age is still fundamentally unexplained. It is mysterious on both ends, both in terms of its origin and legacy. It cannot be defined as a surviving remnant of the Middle Ages, nor defined by terms of the Italian Renaissance. Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age is the result of many years of historical research on many famous Renaissance characters such as Ramon Llull, Henry Cornelius Agrippa, Pico della Mirandola, John Dee, Shakespeare and others.
The hermetic-cabbalistic core of Renaissance Neoplatonism and its influence on the Renaissance image of man as a magician are the subject of research in this book. Fascination with the "Christian Kabbalah" and the discovery of new spiritual depths of the Holy Scriptures gradually, along with various other factors, pave the way for the Reformation.
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