Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition

Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition is a 1964 non-fiction book by British historian Frances A. Yates. The book delves into the history of Hermeticism and its influence upon Renaissance philosophy and Giordano Bruno.

Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition
Front cover art for Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition.
AuthorFrances A. Yates
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
Publication date
1964
Media typePrint (book)
Pages466
ISBN0-226-95007-7
OCLC23685519
Followed byThe Art of Memory 

With the publication of Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, Yates transformed Renaissance historiography. In it, she revealed the hermeticism with which the Renaissance was imbued, and the revived interest in mysticism, magic and Gnosticism of Late Antiquity that survived the Middle Ages. In the face of longstanding conventional interpretations, Yates suggested that the itinerant Catholic priest Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake in 1600 for espousing the Hermetic tradition rather than his affirmation of heliocentricity.

The book is cited by the bestselling British author Philip Pullman, as a central inspiration for his own writing.[1]

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References
  1. http://falseeconomy.org.uk/blog/save-oxfordshire-libraries-speech-philip-pullman Pullman's speech on the future of Oxford libraries, January 2011
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