John Dee: Interdisciplinary Studies in English Renaissance Thought
Editors: Clucas, Stephen (Ed.)
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Intellectual History and the Identity of John Dee In April 1995, at Birkbeck College, University of London, an interdisciplinary colloquium was held so that scholars from diverse fields and areas of expertise could 1 exchange views on the life and work of John Dee. Working in a variety of fields – intellectual history, history of navigation, history of medicine, history of science, history of mathematics, bibliography and manuscript studies – we had all been drawn to Dee by particular aspects of his work, and participating in the colloquium was to c- front other narratives about Dee’s career: an experience which was both bewildering and instructive. Perhaps more than any other intellectual figure of the English Renaissance Dee has been fragmented and dispersed across numerous disciplines, and the various attempts to re-integrate his multiplied image by reference to a particular world-view or philosophical outlook have failed to bring him into focus. This volume records the diversity of scholarly approaches to John Dee which have emerged since the synthetic accounts of I. R. F. Calder, Frances Yates and Peter French. If these approaches have not succeeded in resolving the problematic multiplicity of Dee’s activities, they will at least deepen our understanding of specific and local areas of his intellectual life, and render them more historiographically legible.
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From the reviews:
"John Dee has proved an endlessly fascinating subject for students of early modern thought almost from the moment of his death. This collection … is a welcome contribution to a burgeoning field. … the collection is marvellously meticulous, engaging and learned. No student of the Dee, sixteenth-century mathematics or early modern magic can afford to ignore it." (Adam Mosley, British Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 41 (1), 2008)
- Table of contents (17 chapters)
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INTRODUCTION
Pages 1-22
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JOHN DEE’S NATURAL PHILOSOPHY REVISITED
Pages 23-37
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WINGS (OR STAIRS) TO THE HEAVENS
Pages 41-63
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LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON?
Pages 65-84
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JOHN DEE AND ASTROLOGY IN ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND
Pages 85-94
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- John Dee: Interdisciplinary Studies in English Renaissance Thought
- Editors
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- Stephen Clucas
- Series Title
- International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
- Series Volume
- 193
- Copyright
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4020-4246-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/1-4020-4246-9
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4020-4245-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-90-481-7084-5
- Series ISSN
- 0066-6610
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVIII, 350
- Topics