John Dee. The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16347145 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William H Sherman (corresponding author), William B Robison (0000-0002-2697-7704) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 71-73 |
| Publication date | 1997-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Renaissance and Reformation (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-429X • E-ISSN: 2293-7374 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Libraries - UOTL (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.33137/rr.v33i2.11345 |
| OpenAlex | W4300920026 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Aside from Nostradamus, perhaps no sixteenth-century dabbler in the occult is better known today than John Dee .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
Art · Art history · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · The Renaissance · History · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2022 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |