The Rosicrucian Enlightenment

2. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-138-12786-9
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 521 g

Reihe: Routledge Classics

A history of the role that the occult has played in the formation of modern science and medicine, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment has had a tremendous impact on our understanding of the western esoteric tradition. Beautifully illustrated, it remains one of those rare works of scholarship which the general reader simply cannot afford to ignore.

Zielgruppe

General and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yates, Frances

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 A Royal Wedding: The Marriage of Princess Elizabeth with the Elector Palatine 2 The Bohemian Tragedy 3 John Dee and the Rise of ‘Christian Rosencreutz’ 4 The Rosicrucian Manifestos 5 The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosencreutz 6 The Palatinate Publisher: Johann Theodore De Bry and the Publication of the Works of Robert Fludd and Michael Maier 7 The Rosicrucian Furore in Germany 8 The Rosicrucian Scare in France 9 Francis Bacon ‘Under the Shadow of Jehova’s Wings’ 10 Italian Liberals and Rosicrucian Manifestos 11 The R.C. Fraternity and the Christian Unions 12 Comenius and the Rosicrucian Rumour in Bohemia 13 From the Invisible College to the Royal Society 14 Elias Ashmole and the Dee Tradition: Isaac Newton and Rosicrucian Alchemy 15 Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry 16 The Rosicrucian Enlightenment

Über Autor(innen)

Dame Frances Yates (1899 - 1981). English scholar who brought about the revival of interest in the historical role of the occult sciences, demonstrating their link with the rise of modern science.