Frances Yates

Frances Amelia Yates ( born November 29, 1899 in Southsea, Hampshire, England; † September 29, 1981 in Surbiton, Surrey ) was a British historian and author.

Yates ' father worked over time to chief engineer of the British Navy high, Frances was the youngest of four children of the family. Your hopes, in 1915 to take the place of study in Oxford after the death of her brother, were disappointed. Rather, they took part in a study of the French language through correspondence and graduated with a thesis on the French religious drama of the 16th century from.

Since about 1925 she lived continuously in Claygate, a rural area outside of London, where she continued her private studies up almost to her death. They mostly worked in the British Library and the Public Record Office in London. Her first work John Florio: The Life of an Italian in Shakespeare's England (1934 ) earned her an instant a price. In 1937 she worked at the Warburg Institute in London, which had been outsourced from Germany to Britain. In 1941 she got there a part time job, which was actually their first paid job. Here she met, among others, Fritz Saxl, Gertrud Bing, Edgar Wind and Rudolf Wittkower know the encyclopedic work that should be for her work on Giordano Bruno of importance.

For their pioneering work on the Spanish mystic Ramon Lull universal they first learned Catalan. However, their best known works are Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition ( 1964) and The Art of Memory (1966 ), in which they explained the hermetic and mnemonic tradition of pre-modern.

Yates ' works are characterized, inter alia, to by the fact that it is against the general " culturalist turn" managed to set historical issues such as social circumstances, political situation and scientific knowledge in an impressive way related to each other. Not least because of its comprehensive study of scientific and philosophical primary sources of the early modern period include their works to this day the most impressive work in the field of history of science. Through her ​​entire work, the idea that attracts peace and harmony are always at risk from interest groups and fanaticism.

Meanwhile, the theses Yates ' from various sites have come under criticism that their theses are too speculative and not empirically verifiable; writes Joachim Telle, that they have a " potpourri of conjecture and allegations " set up; some of their theses, which were " initially amazing Cheers" was added, contained " nothing but embark on unwarranted assumptions ."

Due to their high reputation, a Warburg Scholarship was named after her. In addition to numerous awards and honorary doctorates in 1972, she received the title of OBE ( Officer of the Order of the British Empire ) and 1977 the Lady Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE ).

Publications (selection)

  • John Florio. The Life of an Italian in Shakespeare's England. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1934.
  • The Valois Tapestries ( = Studies of the Warburg Institute. Vol 23, ISSN 0083-7199 ). The Warburg Institute, London, 1959 ( Reprint. ( = Frances Yates: Selected Works Vol 1) Routledge, London ua 1999, ISBN 0-415-22044-0. . ).
  • Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic tradition. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1964.
  • The Art of Memory. Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1966 ( in German language: memory and remembering mnemonics from Aristotle to Shakespeare 6th edition Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-05-003530-7. .. ).
  • The Rosicrucian Enlightenment. Routledge and Kegan Paul, London 1972, ISBN 0-7100-7380-1 (in German language: Enlightenment in the sign of the Rose Cross, 2nd edition Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-608-91883-3. . ).
  • Astraea. The Imperial Theme in the Sixteenth Century. Routledge and Kegan Paul, London ua 1975, ISBN 0-7100-7971-0 ( = Frances Yates: Selected Works Vol 1. ). Routledge, London ua 1999, ISBN 0-415-22048-3 ).
  • Shakespeare 's Last Plays. A New Approach. Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1975, ISBN 0-7100-8100-6 ( Reprint. ( = Frances Yates: Selected Works Vol 6) Routledge, London ua 1999, ISBN 0-415-22049-1. . ).
  • The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age. Routledge and Paul, London ua 1979, ISBN 0 - 7100-0320 -X (in German language. Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan era Weber, Amsterdam, 1991, ISBN 90-73063 -06- X).
  • Lull and Bruno ( Frances A. Yates =: Collected Essays Vol 1. ). Routledge and Paul, London ua 1982, ISBN 0-7100-0952-6.
  • Renaissance and Reform. The Italian Contribution ( Frances A. Yates =: Collected Essays Vol 2. ). Routledge and Paul, London ua 1983, ISBN 0-7100-9530-9.
  • Ideas and Ideals in the North European Renaissance. ( = Frances A. Yates: Collected Essays Vol 3. ). Routledge and Kegan Paul, London ua 1984, ISBN 0-7102-0184-2.
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