Volume 22, Number 2 · February 20, 1975
Imperial Image Makers
By J.H. Elliott
Astraea
by Frances Yates
Routledge and Kegan Paul, 233 pp., $21.75
No living historian has done more to read the message concealed behind the symbols of the past than Dr. Frances Yates. In a succession of remarkable books—from The French Academies of the Sixteenth Century (1947) through The Valois Tapestries (1959) and Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (1964) to The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (1972)—she has patiently set out to decipher codes that had become indecipherable with time and to recover meanings that had ceased to be meaningful.
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