Reprint of the book originally published by U. of Chicago Press in 1964 and endorsed by BCL3 . Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.[...]

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[...]

Originally published in 1936, this is a study of Love's Labour's Lost by the English historian Frances Yates (1899-1981).[...]

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[...]