Year: 1997
Type: article
Abstract: Aside from Nostradamus, perhaps no sixteenth-century dabbler in the occult is better known today than John Dee (1527-1609).Ironically, the fraudulent French prophet was in fact merely a mediocre court poet and purveyor of quack medicines, far less important than his reputation for prognostication suggests, while Sherman demonstrates that the English Dee's alchemy, angelology, magic, and the like were but a small part of a very distinguished career that was more conventional and more important than is often recognized.Students of the Elizabethan era have long known that Dee was a prodigious collector of books and curiosities and an authority on geography, history, law, mathematics, medicine, theology, and morein short, a
Source: Renaissance and Reformation
Authors: William H. Sherman (book author), William B. Robison (review author)
Language: English
Subfield: Classics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4300920026