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'''Dame Frances Amelia Yates''' DBE FBA (28 November 1899 – 29 September 1981) was an English [[Historian|historian]] who focused on the study of the [[Renaissance]].

== Life and works ==

In an academic capacity, she taught at the Warburg Institute of the University of London for many years, and also wrote a number of seminal books on the subject of esoteric history.

Yates was born to a middle-class family in Portsmouth, and was largely self-educated, before attaining a BA and MA in French at the University College, London. She began to publish her research in scholarly journals and academic books, focusing on 16th century theatre and the life of John Florio. In 1941, she was employed by the Warburg Institute, and began to work on what she termed "Warburgian history", emphasising a pan-European and inter-disciplinary approach to [[historiography]].

In 1964 she published [[Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition]], an examination of [[Giordano Bruno|Bruno]], which came to be seen as her most significant publication.

In this book, she emphasized the role of [[Hermeticism]] in Bruno's works, and the role that magic and mysticism played in Renaissance thinking.

She wrote extensively on the occult or [[Neoplatonism|Neoplatonic]] philosophies of the Renaissance.

Her books Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (1964), [[The Art of Memory]] (1966), and The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (1972) are major works.

She "dealt with traditions whose remoteness she could not eliminate, even while she made them more understandable."

== See also ==

* [[Giordano Bruno]]
* [[Hermeticism]]
* [[Historian]]
* [[Historiography]]
* [[Neoplatonism]]
* [[Renaissance]]

== External links ==

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Yates Frances Yates] @ Wikipedia

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