John Dee's Occultism: Magical Exaltation through Powerful by Gyorgy E. Szonyi PDF

By Gyorgy E. Szonyi

ISBN-10: 0791462234

ISBN-13: 9780791462232

ISBN-10: 0791462242

ISBN-13: 9780791462249

A entire examine the existence and paintings of 1 of the towering figures of Renaissance mysticism.

Delving into the existence and paintings of John Dee, Renaissance mathematician and “conjurer to Queen Elizabeth,” György E. Szonyi offers an research of Renaissance occultism and its position within the chronology of ecu cultural heritage. Culling examples of “magical considering” from classical, medieval, and Renaissance philosophers, Szonyi revisits the physique of Dee’s personal medical and non secular writings as reflective assets of conventional mysticism. Exploring the highbrow foundations of magic, Szonyi makes a speciality of the ideology of exaltatio, the glorification or deification of guy. He argues that it used to be the need for exaltatio that framed and tied jointly the in a different way different concepts and actions of John Dee as well.

György E. Szonyi is Professor of English on the college of Szeged and of highbrow heritage on the valuable eu collage, Budapest. he's the writer of 2 different books on John Dee.

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