Les Langues occultes de la Renaissance: Essai sur la crise intellectuelle de l'Europe au XVIeme siecle.(Review)

From: Renaissance Quarterly | Date: June 22, 1999| Author: Harrie, Jeanne | Copyright information

Pierre Behar, Paris: Editions Desjonqueres, 1996. 44 illus. + 352 pp. FF 220. ISBN: 2-904227-97-0.

From the twilight of the Middle Ages to the dawn of the modern era, magic, divination, astrology, and other forms of what moderns dismiss as occultism experienced a notable revival in Europe, shaping both elite and popular culture. The last four decades have seen a similar flowering of scholarship, led by, among others, the late Frances A. Yates, that has made considerable ...

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