The Rosicrucian enlightenment / Frances A. Yates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yates, Frances A. (Frances Amelia), 1899-1981.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Routledge classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rosicrucians--History.

Rosicrucians.

History.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xv, 333 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

Summary:

In the early seventeenth century two manifestos were published which proclaimed, in terms of magic, alchemy and the Cabala, the dawn of a new age of increased knowledge and power over nature. These anonymous documents (reproduced in the appendix to this work) were written on behalf of 'the Fraternity of the Rose Cross'. Ever since, this mysterious movement has been the subject of endless fascination, speculation and intrigue. In a remarkable piece of detective work, the renowned historian Frances Yates here reveals the truth about the 'Rosicrucian Enlightenment' and details its impact on Europe's political and cultural history. She transforms, for instance, our understanding of the origins of modern science by placing in the context of an occult tradition key figures such as Descartes, Bacon, Kepler and Newton. Beautifully illustrated, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment remains one of those rare works of scholarship which no reader can afford to ignore.

Contents:

1 A Royal Wedding: The Marriage of Princess Elizabeth with the Elector Palatine 1

2 The Bohemian Tragedy 24

3 John Dee and the Rise of 'Christian Rosencreutz' 42

4 The Rosicrucian Manifestos 58

5 The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosencreutz 82

6 The Palatinate Publisher: Johann Theodore De Bry and the Publication of the Works of Robert Fludd and Michael Maier 97

7 The Rosicrucian Furore in Germany 126

8 The Rosicrucian Scare in France 139

9 Francis Bacon 'Under the Shadow of Jehova's Wings' 156

10 Italian Liberals and Rosicrucian Manifestos 170

11 The R.C. Fraternity and the Christian Unions 181

12 Comenius and the Rosicrucian Rumour in Bohemia 200

13 From the Invisible College to the Royal Society 220

14 Elias Ashmole and the Dee Tradition: Isaac Newton and Rosicrucian Alchemy 247

15 Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry 262

16 The Rosicrucian Enlightenment 278.

Notes:

Originally published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1972.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415267684

9780415267687

0415267692

9780415267694

OCLC:

47002249