Issues in Frances Yates' "Hermetic Tradition'" and On Individualism in the Reformation

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Topics: Renaissance magi (Pico della Mirandola and Marsilio Ficino), hermeticism, historiography, reformation, counter reformation, individualism.

In this general and informal discussion, Dan Attrell talks a bit about Dame Francis Yates' grand narrative of a "Hermetic tradition" and some of the problems it poses. In the second half of the recording, the topic is shifted to a discussion about the question of individualism and the 16th century Reformation.

Books mentioned:
Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition - https://amzn.to/2SClqDO
The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age - https://amzn.to/2Oi1SBx
The Rosicrucian Enlightenment - https://amzn.to/2Dft2rs
Picatrix - https://amzn.to/2ESHbML
Hermetica - https://amzn.to/2DfbGLr
Syncretism in the West: Pico's 900 Theses - https://amzn.to/2JuytmA
Christianity in the West 1400-1700 - https://amzn.to/2JvZLZS
Being Protestant - https://amzn.to/2F8qFsv
Nails in the Wall - https://amzn.to/2RnrKO0

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