A reputation history of John Dee, 1527-1609
Subtitle: the life of an Elizabethan intellectual
By: Robert W. Barone ; with a foreword by Nicholas H. Clulee.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780773446670
Subjects: Dee, John, -- 1527-1608; Dee, John, -- 1527-1608 -- Public opinion; Intellectuals -- Great Britain -- Biography; Occultists -- Great Britain -- Biography; Scientists -- Great Britain -- Biography; Scholars -- Great Britain -- Biography; Astrologers -- Great Britain -- Biography; Alchemists -- Great Britain -- Biography; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 16th century; Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603 -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. I. The making of a reputation. Dee's early life : 1527-1553; title: Uneasy times : Dee's fortunes during the reign of Mary : 1553-1558; title: The Queen's philosopher : the apex of a career : 1558-1583; title: Contact with angels and travels abroad : waning fortunes and desperate hopes : 1583-1589; title: Twilight years : broken promises and broken dreams : 1590-1608/9; title: pt. II. The evolution of a reputation. Seventeenth century reception : casting the die; title: The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries : a reputations journey from the Age of Reason through the Victorian Age; title: The twentieth century to the present day : a reputation revised; title: Conclusion: Dee's place in history.