The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age

Frances A. Yates

Introduction; Part 1 The Occult Philosophy in Renaissance and Reformation; Chapter I Medieval Christian Cabala: The Art of Ramon Lull; Chapter II The Occult Philosophy in the Italian Renaissance: Pico della Mirandola; Chapter III The Occult Philosophy in the Reformation: Johannes Reuchlin; Chapter IV The Cabalist Friar of Venice: Francesco Giorgi; Chapter V The Occult Philosophy and Magic: Henry Cornelius Agrippa; chapter VI The Occult Philosophy and Melancholy: Dürer and Agrippa; chapter VII Reactions against the Occult Philosophy: The Witch Craze; Part 2 The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age; Introduction; chapter VIII John Dee: Christian Cabalist; Chapter IX Spenser’s Neoplatonism and the Occult Philosophy: John Dee and The Faerie Queene; Chapter X Elizabethan England and the Jews; Chapter XI The Reaction: Christopher Marlowe on Conjurors, Imperialists and Jews; Chapter XII Shakespeare and Christian Cabala: Francesco Giorgi and The Merchant of Venice; Chapter XIII Agrippa and Elizabethan Melancholy: George Chapman’s Shadow of Night; Chapter XIV Shakespearean Fairies, Witches, Melancholy: King Lear and the Demons; Chapter XV Prospero: The Shakespearean Magus; Part 3 The Occult Philosophy and Rosicrucianism and Puritanism: The Return of the Jews to England; Introduction; Chapter XVI Christian Cabala and Rosicrucianism; Chapter XVII The Occult Philosophy and Puritanism: John Milton; Chapter XVIII The Return of the Jews to England; Epilogue;