Deborah E. Harkness,
Deborah E. (Associate Professor, University of California, Davis) Harkness
Cambridge University Press
e druk, 1999
9780521622288
John Dee's Conversations with Angels
Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature
Specificaties
Gebonden, 268 blz.
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Engels
Cambridge University Press |
1999
ISBN13: 9780521622288
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Levertijd ongeveer 9 werkdagen
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Samenvatting
John Dee's angel conversations have been an enigmatic facet of Elizabethan England's most famous natural philosopher's life and work. Professor Harkness contextualizes Dee's angel conversations within the natural philosophical, religious and social contexts of his time. She argues that they represent a continuing development of John Dee's earlier concerns and interests. These conversations include discussions of the natural world, the practice of natural philosophy, and the apocalypse.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9780521622288
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Gebonden
Aantal pagina's:268
Uitgever:Cambridge University Press
Inhoudsopgave
List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations and conventions; Introduction; Part I. Genesis: 1. The colloquium of angels: Prague, 1586; 2. Building Jacob's ladder: the genesis of the angel conversations; 3. Climbing Jacob's ladder: angelology as natural philosophy; Part II. Revelations: 4. 'Then commeth the ende': apocalypse, natural philosophy, and the angel conversations; 5. 'The true cabala': reading the book of nature; 6. Adam's alchemy: the medicine of God and the restitution of nature; Epilogue; Select bibliography; Index.