Dame Francis Yates (1899-1981) was Reader in the History of the Renaissance at the Warburg Institute, University of London. The leading Renaissance scholar of her time, she was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1977 in recognition of her services to Renaissance studies. Her other publications include The Art of Memory and The Rosicrucian Enlightenment .

'Among those who have explored the intellectual world of the sixteenth century, no one can rival Frances Yates. Wherever she looks, she illuminates . . . No one has done more than she to recreate, from unexpected material, the intellectual life of past ages.' – Hugh Trevor-Roper'A welcome new edition of this classic work ...' – Network

• List of illustrations, Preface, Introduction, PART I The Occult Philosophy in Renaissance and Reformation, PART II The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age, PART III The Occult Philosophy and Rosicrucianism and Puritanism. The Return of the Jews to England, Epilogue, Notes, Index

Dame Francis Yates (1899-1981) was Reader in the History of the Renaissance at the Warburg Institute, University of London. The leading Renaissance scholar of her time, she was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1977 in recognition of her services to Renaissance studies. Her other publications include The Art of Memory and The Rosicrucian Enlightenment .

'Among those who have explored the intellectual world of the sixteenth century, no one can rival Frances Yates. Wherever she looks, she illuminates . . . No one has done more than she to recreate, from unexpected material, the intellectual life of past ages.' – Hugh Trevor-Roper'A welcome new edition of this classic work ...' – Network

• List of illustrations, Preface, Introduction, PART I The Occult Philosophy in Renaissance and Reformation, PART II The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age, PART III The Occult Philosophy and Rosicrucianism and Puritanism. The Return of the Jews to England, Epilogue, Notes, Index