Receptions of Revelations: A Future for the Study of Esotericism and Antiquity
New Approaches to the Study of Esotericism December 3, 2020 D. Burns
There is no study of “esotericism” (hereafter referred to without scare quotes) in which the literature and legacy of the ancient Mediterranean world do not play a primary role.1 To take several examples, the so-called Yates paradigm derived from Frances Yates’s celebrated work Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition may be understood as not just relating a history of a neglected Renaissance...