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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"John Dee"”.
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Seeing the Word : John Dee and Renaissance Occultism
… the occult philosophy of the British polymath John Dee (1527-1609). Focusing on his treatise Monas hieroglyphica (1564) and his notorious angelic conversations in the 1580s, it describes Dee’s philosophical career as a continuous search for a language which could yield knowledge of both nature …
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‘Past, Present, and Hereafter to be Written’: The Polytemporal Identities of John Dee
This thesis re-assesses what we know of John Dee within a context of what I have termed ‘polytemporality’. This approach questions Dee’s relationship to periodising conventions and to the historiographical recuperation of identity following perceived temporal ruptures (such as the Reformation). It …
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John Dee and the 'Sidney Group' : cosmopolitics and Protestant 'activism' in the 1570s
The life and thought of John Dee (1527-1608) have in recent years received considerable attention from historians. His nineteenth-century reputation as a deluded (and deluding) crank has been dispelled and he is seen now as the proponent of an immensely complex system of philosophy which made …
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Hallowed ground: literature and the encounter with god in post-reformtion england, c. 1550 - 1704
… phenomena of religious experience. Chapter one, "John Dee: Mysticism, Technology, Idolatry," considers the career of early modern polymath John Dee and his conversations with angels as a kind of "mysticism" compromised by the technology of magic and early modern science. In chapter two, "A Glass …
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Redating Pericles: A Re-examination of Shakespeare’s Pericles as an Elizabethan Play
… and personalities in the court of Elizabeth I: John Dee, Philip Sidney, Edward de Vere, and many others. The tournament impresas, alchemical symbolism of the story, and its lunar and astronomical imagery suggest Pericles was written long before 1608. Finally, Shakespeare’s focus on …
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Occult poetics and the production of English verse, 1558-1603
… within Elizabethan vernacular poetry. I examine John Dee, traditionally viewed as a magus-figure, and resituate him within discourses about language. I show that Dee believed the divine origins of language lay in geometry and number, and that his semiotics informs his hopes for Elizabethan …
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Solomon on Stage, Representations of Magic and the Occult in Early Modern English Drama
… such as *Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay* (1589), *John a Kent John a Cumber* (1590), and *John of Bordeaux* (1591), shape more successful Solomonic exceptions who avoid damnation and even become the heroes of their narratives. When Solomon himself appears on stage in *David and Bethsabe* (c.1590) …