Dame Frances Yates (1899 - 1981). English scholar who brought about the revival of interest in the historical role of the occult sciences, demonstrating their link with the rise of modern science.

'Zestful, stylish, full of suggestive ways forward, Yates's bold reassessment of Rosicrucianism is provoking, exhilarating and indispensable.' - Diarmaid MacCulloch, BBC History Magazine'Brilliant analysis of events, movements, relationships and consequences. Her book is compulsive reading, and forces the reader back not only to alternative accounts of early seventeenth-century movements, which seem superficial, but to Dr Yates's other books.' - Asa Briggs'No one has done more than she to recreate, from unexpected material, the intellectual life of past ages. It is Dr Yates's great achievement to identify the ideas and, by delicate scholarship and profound study of symbolism, to provide them with a pedigree and a home. A brilliant and exciting book.' - Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Sunday Times

• 1 A Royal Wedding: The Marriage of Princess Elizabeth with the Elector Palatine 2 The Bohemian Tragedy 3 John Dee and the Rise of ‘Christian Rosencreutz’ 4 The Rosicrucian Manifestos 5 The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosencreutz 6 The Palatinate Publisher: Johann Theodore De Bry and the Publication of the Works of Robert Fludd and Michael Maier 7 The Rosicrucian Furore in Germany 8 The Rosicrucian Scare in France 9 Francis Bacon ‘Under the Shadow of Jehova’s Wings’ 10 Italian Liberals and Rosicrucian Manifestos 11 The R.C. Fraternity and the Christian Unions 12 Comenius and the Rosicrucian Rumour in Bohemia 13 From the Invisible College to the Royal Society 14 Elias Ashmole and the Dee Tradition: Isaac Newton and Rosicrucian Alchemy 15 Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry 16 The Rosicrucian Enlightenment