One of Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century

In this classic study of how people learned to retain vast stores of knowledge before the invention of the printed page, Frances A. Yates traces the art of memory from its treatment by Greek orators, through its G[...]

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 gen[...]

The ancient Greeks, to whom a trained memory was of vital importance - as it was to everyone before the invention of printing - created an elaborate memory system, based on a technique of impressing 'places' and 'images' on the mind. Inherited and recorded by the Romans, this art of memory passed in[...]

Forfatteren viser i denne boken den viktige rollen mange okkulte retninger spilte i renessansen, og hvordan disse var med på å forme selve epoken og ettertiden. I fokus er filosofen, naturvitenskapsmannen og den kjetterdømte Giordano Bruno. Avgjørende for renessansens okkultisme var gjenoppdagel[...]