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John Dee's Conversations with Angels

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John Dee's Conversations with Angels

John Dee's Conversations with Angels

Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature
Deborah E. Harkness, University of California, Davis
July 2013
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    John Dee's angel conversations have been an enigmatic facet of Elizabethan England's most famous natural philosopher's life and work. Professor Harkness contextualizes Dee's angel conversations within the natural philosophical, religious and social contexts of his time. She argues that they represent a continuing development of John Dee's earlier concerns and interests. These conversations include discussions of the natural world, the practice of natural philosophy, and the apocalypse.

    • Focuses on Elizabethan England's most famous 'scientist' or natural philosopher
    • Heavy use of Dee's library and annotations
    • Apocalyptic ideas as a context of Dee's conversations

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    Contents

    Table of Contents

    • List of illustrations
    • Acknowledgements
    • List of abbreviations and conventions
    • Introduction
    • Part I. Genesis:
    • 1. The colloquium of angels: Prague, 1586
    • 2. Building Jacob's ladder: the genesis of the angel conversations
    • 3. Climbing Jacob's ladder: angelology as natural philosophy
    • Part II. Revelations:
    • 4. 'Then commeth the ende': apocalypse, natural philosophy, and the angel conversations
    • 5. 'The true cabala': reading the book of nature
    • 6. Adam's alchemy: the medicine of God and the restitution of nature
    • Epilogue
    • Select bibliography
    • Index.
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    • Deborah E. Harkness , University of Southern California

      Deborah Harkness is Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern California. She is the prize-winning author of articles on John Dee's angel conversations and his household.

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