The Rosicrucian Enlightenment

Some creasing to spine. No signatures. Small price sticker on rear cover.; Paperback reprint. 315, [3] pages + plates. Page dimensions: 194 x 118mm. Yates was a Reader in the History of the Renaissance at the University of London. "Dr Frances Yates reveals that the ['Rosicrucian manifestos'] were connected with movements stirred up by John Deein Bohemia during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, and with contemporary movements in South Germany which culminated in the short-lived reigh of Frederick, Elector Palatinate, and his wife, the daughter of James I, as 'Winter' King and Queen of Bohemia." - from dust-jacket blurb of the first edition (not this copy). Cover illustration by Justin Todd. Selected chapter titles: The Bohemian Tragedy; The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosencreutz; The Palatinate Publisher; Francis Bacon 'Under the Shadow of Jehova's Wings'; Italian Liberals and Rosicrucian Manifestos; From the Invisible College to the Royal Society; Elias Ashmoile and the Dee Tradition; Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry; The Rosicrucian Enlightenment; Index.

Product Info

ISBN: 0586082212

ISBN-13: 9780586082218

Publisher: Paladin

Year: (1972)

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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