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John Dee's Conversations with Angels; Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature.(Review)
John Dee's Conversations with Angels; Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature, by Deborah E. Harkness (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2000; pp. 252. 37.50 [pounds sterling]).
Located on the margins between magic, religion and experimental science, the occult activities of John Dee (1527-1608/9) have exerted a continuing fascination among scholars since the seventeenth century. Yet although many of Dee's arguably more `irrational' interests are now thoroughly integrated into present-day understandings of Elizabethan cultural life, his notorious `angelic conversations' have resisted analysis. Yet, as Deborah E. Harkness persuasively argues in John Dee's Conversations with …
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