Deborah E. Harkness

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'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780521622288
• ISBN-10: 052162228X
• Artikelnr.: 22072849

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.