Frances Yates and the Hermetic Tradition [Kindle Edition]

Marjorie G. Jones (Author)

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This first biography of British historian Frances Yates tells us a great deal about the intellectual life of postwar Europe, as well as the longstanding tradition of independent women scholars. Yates was a pioneering scholar who transformed Renaissance historiography with the publication in 1964 of her great book Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition.

About the Author

Marjorie G. Jones is a graduate of Wheaton College, MA and the Rutgers School of Law. In the 1990s she earned an MA in Historical Studies at the Graduate Faculty of the New School in New York City where she wrote her thesis on several early, unpublished works of Frances Yates. Since that time, she has taught history at the New School and Mercy College in New York. She is a mother and grandmother and lives with her husband in New York.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 410 KB
• Publisher: Nicolas-Hays, Incorporated (June 1, 2008)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B00427ZI4A
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #301,308 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

Marjorie G. Jones is a graduate of Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, and the Rutgers School of Law. In the 1990s, after twenty-five years in banking and executive recruitment, she returned to school and earned an M.A. in Historical Studies at the Graduate Faculty of the New School in New York City, where she wrote her thesis about early unpublished writings of Frances Yates. Since then, she has taught history at The New School and Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, NY and currently teaches at Sing Sing prison. A member of the Writing Women's Lives seminar, she lives with her husband in Bronxville, NY.

Francis Yates and the Hermetic Tradition is the author's first book. Translated into Japanese, Frances Yates & the Hermetic Tradition was published in Japan in early 2010

Currently Marjorie is working on her next biography of Mary Vaux Walcott (1860-1940), a Quaker known as the Audubon of Botany.

Please visit Marjorie G. Jones's website http://www.marjoriegjones.com for more information and to view other projects by this author.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Reader's Review, August 4, 2008

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Maria Enrico - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Frances Yates and the Hermetic Tradition (Paperback)

This book is a MUST for anyone interested in how history is interpreted and recorded. Francis Yates was a force unto her own in the field of historiography, meaning the techniques, theories and principles of the writing of history. Dr. Jones, a historian in her own right, should be congratulated for her research on Yates' belief in "the creative interaction of religion and culture in the life of Western society" and her seminal contributions to the field of interdisciplinary historiography. "Historical Inebriation" is the title of one of the chapters and it is, ultimately, what Jones so competently offers her readers.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absorbing and elegant, July 3, 2008

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Benita G. Roumanis (Ossining NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Frances Yates and the Hermetic Tradition (Paperback)

Marjorie G. Jones tackles the life of Frances Yates, intellectual historian and literary critic with aplomb!
Jones is in her element as she presents the reader with a unique picture of an intrepid female Renaissance scholar "who saw history in creative and unconventional ways" and travelled in fascinating academic circles
Absorbing and elegant, this is an apt tribute to a pioneer, whom we might never have met without Jones' meticulous research and excellent use of Yates' journals.
BGR

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thoughtful biography, August 10, 2008

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Frances Yates and the Hermetic Tradition (Paperback)

Frances Yates and the Hermetic Tradition is the first full-length biography of Frances Yates, the female British historian and intellectual who wrote "Giordano Bruno and The Hermetic Tradition" and "The Art of Memory". Drawing upon excerpts from Yates' own diary and personal papers as well as exhaustive research, Frances Yates and the Hermetic Tradition recreates her scholarly career, and the cultural influences that shaped her interdisciplinary approach to history and literary criticism. A handful of black-and-white photographic plates illustrate this thoughtful biography, especially recommended for public and college library collections.