ABSTRACT
First published in 1999. This is volume VII of ten of the collected works of Frances Yates. This book is a strictly historical study, not an enquiry into ‘the occult’ in general, which I am certainly not qualified to undertake. It includes what was known as ‘the occult philosophy’ in the Renaissance. This philosophy, or outlook, was compounded of Hermeticism as revived by Marsilio Ficino, to which Pico della Mirandola added a Christianised version of Jewish Cabala. These two trends, associated together, form what Yates calls ‘the occult philosophy’.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |6 pages
Introduction
part 1|65 pages
The Occult Philosophy in Renaissance and Reformation
chapter Chapter I|7 pages
Medieval Christian Cabala: The Art of Ramon Lull
chapter Chapter II|6 pages
The Occult Philosophy in the Italian Renaissance: Pico della Mirandola
chapter Chapter III|5 pages
The Occult Philosophy in the Reformation: Johannes Reuchlin
chapter Chapter IV|8 pages
The Cabalist Friar of Venice: Francesco Giorgi
chapter Chapter V|11 pages
The Occult Philosophy and Magic: Henry Cornelius Agrippa
chapter Chapter VI|11 pages
The Occult Philosophy and Melancholy: Dürer and Agrippa
chapter Chapter VII|11 pages
Reactions against the Occult Philosophy: The Witch Craze
part 2|91 pages
The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age
chapter |4 pages
Introduction
chapter Chapter VIII|15 pages
John Dee: Christian Cabalist
chapter Chapter IX|14 pages
Spenser's Neoplatonism and the Occult Philosophy: John Dee and The Faerie Queene
chapter Chapter X|6 pages
Elizabethan England and the Jews
chapter Chapter XI|11 pages
The Reaction: Christopher Marlowe on Conjurors, Imperialists and Jews
chapter Chapter XII|7 pages
Shakespeare and Christian Cabala: Francesco Giorgi and The Merchant of Venice
chapter Chapter XIII|12 pages
Agrippa and Elizabethan Melancholy: George Chapman's Shadow of Night
chapter Chapter XIV|11 pages
Shakespearean Fairies, Witches, Melancholy: King Lear and the Demons
chapter Chapter XV|5 pages
Prospero: The Shakespearean Magus
part 3|27 pages
The Occult Philosophy and Rosicrucianism and Puritanism: The Return of the Jews to England