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The Rosicrucian Enlightenment Revisited

By Christopher McIntosh , John Matthews , Robert Powell , Joscelyn Godwin , Christopher Bamford , Paul Bembridge , Goodrick-Clarke , Rafal Prinke

Book information

Publisher
Lindisfarne Pr
Year
1999
ISBN
0940262843, 9780940262843
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14579287 bytes)
Edition
1ST
Pages
288\288
Topic
History
Time added
2015-02-08 08:51:29

Description

It's nearly 30 years since historian Dame Frances Yates published her groundbreaking study The Rosicrucian Enlightement, and so brought academic rigour back to a subject which had for too long been almost the sole province of occultists who often confused fact and fancy. Yates placed the three main Rosicrucian manifestos, which first appeared in 1614-1616, in the context of their time and place--the marriage of Elizabeth, dauthter of James VI & I, to Fredrick, Elector Palatine, head of the German Protestant princes--and identified many of the key players in 17th-century hermetic thought. The Rosicrucian Enlightenment Revisited is a collection of papers given in Yates's honour at two conferences in the Czech Republic in 1995 and 1997, at which some of today's leading writers and academics in this field presented their latest research findings.

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