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Frances Amelia Yates

フランセス・アメリア・イェーツ

Furansesu Ameria Yētsu

別名: Dame Frances Yates

プロフィール

性別
女性
生誕
1899-11-28 (Southsea, Portsmouth, England)
死没
1981-09-29 (Surbiton, England) 81歳
国籍
British, English
言語
English, French, Italian
宗教
Anglicanism 1900年受洗
居住地歴
Southsea, England → Glasgow, Scotland → Ingleton, Yorkshire → Claygate, Surrey

経歴

職業
Historian, Writer
活動期間
1925年〜1981年
所属
Warburg Institute
所属団体
British Academy, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Foreign Honorary)
影響を受けた人物
Dorothea Singer, Fritz Saxl, D. P. Walker
影響を与えた人物
Keith Thomas

学歴

University College London
French
学位: MA
期間: 1920-1926
卒業年: 1926
国: United Kingdom
BA (1924) and MA in French

受賞歴

Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
1977
主催: British Government
結果: 受章
Fellow of the British Academy (FBA)
1967
主催: British Academy
結果: 選出
Mary Crawshay Prize
1934
対象作品: John Florio: The Life of an Italian in Shakespeare's England
主催: British Academy
結果: 受賞
Wolfson Award
1973
対象作品: Overall oeuvre
主催: Wolfson Foundation
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition

1964年 History

Emphasized the role of Hermeticism in Bruno's works and Renaissance magic.

HermeticismMysticismMagic

The Art of Memory

1966年 History

Explored the history of the art of memory.

Art of MemoryRenaissance Thought

The Rosicrucian Enlightenment

1972年 History

Examined the influence of Rosicrucian manifestos.

RosicrucianismEsotericism

全著作

  • John Florio: The Life of an Italian in Shakespeare's England
  • A Study of Love's Labour's Lost
  • The French Academies of the Sixteenth Century
  • The Valois Tapestries
  • Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition
  • The Art of Memory
  • Theatre of the World
  • The Rosicrucian Enlightenment
  • Astraea: The Imperial Theme in the Sixteenth Century
  • Shakespeare's Last Plays: A New Approach
  • The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age

作風・主題

文体
ScholarlyImaginativeInterdisciplinary
頻出モチーフ
Hermetic TraditionRenaissance MagicEsotericism

健康

  • Depression
    1940年代-晩年
    Deeply unhappy but continued research
  • Femur fracture
    1981年
    Hospitalized shortly before death

評価・遺産

Pioneer in the study of Renaissance esotericism, renowned for highlighting Hermeticism's role.

関連学会

  • British Academy

資料所蔵先

  • Warburg Institute

大衆文化への影響

  • Influenced John Crowley's novels
  • Influenced Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials

引用

  • It seems to me now the Golden Age, in which the security and stability of the Victorian era were still intact and seemed the natural state of affairs, which would continue for ever (though in a less severe and easier form).
    出典: Autobiographical note

豆知識

  • Never married, remained single
  • Lived in Claygate until death
  • Long-time researcher at Warburg Institute