Dame Frances Amelia Yates DBE FBA (28 November 1899 – 29 September 1981) was an English historian of the Renaissance, who wrote books on the history of...
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esotericism only emerged in the late 20th century, pioneered by scholars like Frances Yates and Antoine Faivre. The concept of the "esoteric" originated in the...
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Francis Bacon (redirect from Frances Bacon)
Bacon 1976. Frances Yates, The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age, pp. 61–68, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979 Frances Yates, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment...
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loosely organized group of mnemonic techniques and principles. Historian Frances Yates argues that Bruno was deeply influenced by the presocratic Empedocles...
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Robert Hooke, Francis Glisson, Christopher Wren and William Petty. Frances Yates, Collected Essays Vol. III (1984), p. 253. David A. Kronick, The Commerce...
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support claims of involvement with the Rosicrucians. Historian Dame Frances Yates does not make the claim that Bacon was a Rosicrucian, but presents evidence...
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the "Memory Theater" of Giulio Camillo discussed by Yates (1966, pp 129-159) Yates 1966 Frances Yates, The Art of Memory, 1966, Ch. 12 Carruthers & Ziolkowski...
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Loftus cites the foundation story of Simonides (more or less taken from Frances Yates) and describes some of the most basic aspects of the use of space in...
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The Art of Memory is a 1966 non-fiction book by British historian Frances A. Yates. The book follows the history of mnemonic systems from the classical...
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Andreae's usage as farce, but this conception has been contested by Frances Yates, who took Rosicrucianism seriously and who suggested that Andreae's...
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