Product Description: This book should be of interest to advanced students of Renaissance studies, early modern history and philosophy.

Product Description: John Dee was the 'mage' at the court of Elizabeth I. He was mathematician, scientist, sorcerer and alchemist combined. This major study of Dee enables the reader to develop a full understanding of his role in history. This book should be of interest to advanced students of Renaissance studies, early modern history and philosophy...read more

'The career of John Dee has played a significant role in recent historiographical debates about the relationship between magic and science in the early modern period. This collection of interdisciplinary essays, which addresses a wide range of Dee's diverse intellectual activities (including mathematics, astronomy, navigation, astrology, alchemy, cabala and 'angel magic'), seeks to enlarge the scope of this debate, as well as presenting new archival and bibliographical discoveries relating to Dee and hiscollaborators and colleagues'--Dust jacket.

John Dee was the 'mage' at the court of Elizabeth I. He was mathematician, scientist, sorcerer and alchemist combined. This major study of Dee enables the reader to develop a full understanding of his role in history. This book should be of interest to advanced students of Renaissance studies, early modern history and philosophy.

Describes the beliefs and images connected with the Christian Cabala and general occult philosophy during Queen Elizabeth I's reign, and discusses their influence on Elizabethan painting and poetry (view table of contents)

This analysis of popular belief in England begins with the collapse of the medieval Church and ends with the change in the intellectual atmosphere around 1700.