First Published in 1999. A full list of the writings of Dame Frances Yates will appear in volume III of the Collected Essays. This is Volume IX of ten the selected works of Frances A. Yates.

It is hard to overestimate the importance of the contribution made by Dame Frances Yates to the serious study of esotericism and the occult sciences. To her work can be attributed the contemporary understanding of the occult origins of much of Western scientific thinking, indeed of Western civilization itself. The Occult Philosophy of the Elizabethan Age was her last book, and in it she condensed many aspects of her wide learning to present a clear, penetrating, and, above all, ac...

Giordano Bruno is known as the Prophet of the New Age, and his vision of an infinite universe grounded in science is increasingly celebrated.One of the principal forces behind his rediscovery was the great British historian Frances Yates. In calling attention to Giordono Bruno, she paved the way for a revaluation of the esoteric influences at play during the onset of the modern era. Today, when traditional answers about the universe and our place within it are under increasing scru...

Placing Bruno—both advanced philosopher and magician burned at the stake—in the Hermetic tradition, Yates's acclaimed study gives an overview not only of Renaissance humanism but of its interplay—and conflict—with magic and occult practices."Among those who have explored the intellectual world of the sixteenth century no one in England can rival Miss Yates. Wherever she looks, she illuminates. Now she has looked on Bruno. This brilliant book takes time to digest, but it is an intel...

Mrs. Ashton Yates, born Frances-Marie Lovett, was the author of “Letters Written During a Journey to Switzerland in the Autumn of 1841,” a two-volume travel diary published in London. She was the wife of Sir John Ashton (1781-1863), a British Whig politician and railroad investor. Although first educated as a Unitarian minister, he later worked at a mercantile firm in Liverpool and wrote several books on corn laws and economics, serving in Parliament 1837 to 1841. They lived at Dingle Head...

Harlequin® Presents brings you a collection of four new titles! This Presents box set includes:**HIS FORBIDDEN PREGNANT PRINCESSBy Maisey Yates**King Luca’s plan to handpick a husband for his innocent step-sister, Sophia, backfires wildly when the forbidden desire simmering between them explodes into life! It must never happen again. Until Luca discovers Sophia is pregnant with his heir…SHEIKH’S ROYAL BABY REVELATIONSecre...

In the tranquil realm of Friar Anselmo, and Other Poems, Julia Caroline Dorr unveils a tapestry of emotions and reflections. Through lyrical verses, she explores the depths of human experience, from the tender bonds of love to the poignant pangs of loss. With a keen eye for nature's beauty and a profound understanding of the human heart, Dorr's poems resonate with a timeless elegance that transcends the boundaries of time. Prepare to be captivated by the evocative imagery, heartfelt sentim...

This is the first full-length biography of British historian Frances Yates, author of such acclaimed works as Giordano Bruno and The Hermetic Tradition and The Art of Memory, one of the most influential non-fiction books of the twentieth century. Jones’s book explores Yates’ remarkable life and career and her interest in the mysterious figure of Giordano Bruno and the influence of the Hermetic tradition on the culture of the Renaissance. Her revolutionary way of viewing h...

Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Nicknamed ‘The Anarchy' for its unprecedented levels of chaos and disorder, the succession crisis that followed the death of King Henry I in 1135 resulted in England's first civil war.‘The Medieval Anarchy: History in an Hour’ neatly covers all the major facts and events giving you a clear and straightforward overview of the plots and violence that ensued during the the nineteen-year conflict. ‘The Medieval Anarchy: Hist...

'No one can deny Paul Roland is a complete master of his subject.'Colin Wilson, author of The Occult and A Criminal History of MankindWhy did the country which produced Goethe, Beethoven, Bach, Schiller, Einstein, Kant and Hegel allow itself to be led to the precipice of self-destruction by a ragged collective of criminals, misfits, sadists and petty bureaucrats?Nazis and the Occult reveals the true nature of the T...

"Ingrid D. Rowland brings before us today the pieces of an extraordinary sixteenth-century life . . . This is intellectual biography at its best." —Peter N. Miller, The New RepublicGiordano Bruno is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland's pathbreaking life of Bruno establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Galileo, a thinker whose vision of the world prefigures ours...

Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-FictionWinner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-FictionOne of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it.Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late...