The Mercurian Monarch - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mercurian Monarch write by Douglas Brooks-Davies. This book was released on 1983. The Mercurian Monarch available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Thinking with Demons
Thinking with Demons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thinking with Demons write by Stuart Clark. This book was released on 1999. Thinking with Demons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This major work offers a new interpretation of the witchcraft beliefs of European intellectuals between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, showing how these beliefs fitted rationally with other beliefs of the period and how far the nature of rationality is dependent on its historical context.
Art and Magic in the Court of the Stuarts
Art and Magic in the Court of the Stuarts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Art and Magic in the Court of the Stuarts write by Vaughan Hart. This book was released on 2002-03-11. Art and Magic in the Court of the Stuarts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Spanning from the inauguration of James I in 1603 to the execution of Charles I in 1649, the Stuart court saw the emergence of a full expression of Renaissance culture in Britain. Hart examines the influence of magic on Renaissance art and how in its role as an element of royal propaganda, art was used to represent the power of the monarch and reflect his apparent command over the hidden forces of nature. Court artists sought to represent magic as an expression of the Stuart Kings' divine right, and later of their policy of Absolutism, through masques, sermons, heraldry, gardens, architecture and processions. As such, magic of the kind enshrined in Neoplatonic philosophy and the court art which expressed its cosmology, played their part in the complex causes of the Civil War and the destruction of the Stuart image which followed in its wake.
Pope's Dunciad and the Queen of Night
Pope's Dunciad and the Queen of Night - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pope's Dunciad and the Queen of Night write by Douglas Brooks-Davies. This book was released on 1985. Pope's Dunciad and the Queen of Night available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale
Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale write by Martina Zamparo. This book was released on 2022-10-05. Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the role of alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Hermetic philosophy in one of Shakespeare’s last plays, The Winter’s Tale. A perusal of the vast literary and iconographic repertory of Renaissance alchemy reveals that this late play is imbued with several topoi, myths, and emblematic symbols coming from coeval alchemical, Paracelsian, and Hermetic sources. It also discusses the alchemical significance of water and time in the play’s circular and regenerative pattern and the healing role of women. All the major symbols of alchemy are present in Shakespeare’s play: the intertwined serpents of the caduceus, the chemical wedding, the filius philosophorum, and the so-called rex chymicus. This book also provides an in-depth survey of late Renaissance alchemy, Paracelsian medicine, and Hermetic culture in the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages. Importantly, it contends that The Winter’s Tale, in symbolically retracing the healing pattern of the rota alchemica and in emphasising the Hermetic principles of unity and concord, glorifies King James’s conciliatory attitude.
