Deborah E. Harkness (Associate Professor, University of California,

John Dee's Conversations with Angels

Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is about Elizabethan England's most famous 'scientist' or natural philosopher John Dee and his 'conversations with angels'.

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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. These conversations include discussions of the natural world, the practice of natural philosophy, and the apocalypse.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9780521027489
• ISBN-10: 0521027489
• Artikelnr.: 21984970

Autorenporträt

Deborah Harkness is Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern California. She is the prize-winning author of articles on John Dee's angel conversations and his household.

Inhaltsangabe

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.