John Dee: The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance.

Renaissance Quarterly | September 22, 1997| | Copyright

William H. Sherman has written a spirited and learned book that challenges the Yatesian tradition of Dee as "the reincarnation of Merlin at the Tudor court" (xii). Against the scholarly and popular image of Dee as the solitary Hermetic philosopher, Sherman presents Dee as an activist scholar bristling with projects and ideas intended to advance the commercial and imperial interests of the English commonwealth. In making this argument, Sherman displays a zeal for scholarship and a range of interests worthy of the subject of his book.

Sherman develops his thesis in three ...

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