Routledge Classics: The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age (Paperback)

from slickdpdx

Wide-ranging and chatty. A little sketchy, but that may be Yates presuming a level of familiarity with the subject matter that approaches her own. (Mine doesn't.) She shows occult philosophy to be a substantial element in the fabric of the art and thought of the Renaissance and Elizabethan eras, ...

from PaulBaldowski

Interesting treatment of religion, society, and the occult, marred by Yates' flights of fantasy and tenuous connections in the second part of the book.

from Poquette

Much, much more than an introduction to Elizabethan Age philosophy, The Occult Philosophy is divided into three parts. The first part lays the medieval philosophical groundwork going back as far as Ramond Lull in the 13th century, the second part deals with philosophy in the Elizabethan Age itsel...

from Poquette

Much, much more than an introduction to Elizabethan Age philosophy, The Occult Philosophy is divided into three parts. The first part lays the medieval philosophical groundwork going back as far as Ramond Lull in the 13th century, the second part deals with philosophy in the Elizabethan Age itsel...

from Poquette

Much, much more than an introduction to Elizabethan Age philosophy, The Occult Philosophy is divided into three parts. The first part lays the medieval philosophical groundwork going back as far as Ramond Lull in the 13th century, the second part deals with philosophy in the Elizabethan Age itsel...