> Are you being rude about Yates as well as Bruno, Robin?
Yup, Alison.
> What's wrong with you?
Well, at some stage I ploughed (that being the operative word) through
virtually every single book she published (though not the articles), from
her work on The School of Night via Bruno and English Renaissance
Hermeticism to The Art of Memory. (I may have the sequence wrong.)
Not an experience I'm anxious to repeat.
The noise-to-information level is rather high for my taste, she takes the
ideas rather too seriously (I'm with Wayne Schumaker here on how one studies
Renaissance occultism), and most of her wilder ideas are neither properly
documented or argued.
If I'm allowed a totally-unfair late-night abusive characterisation, it's
light-weight academic fluff that gained its reputation as so few other
people were working in this area at the time she started.
She'd have made a good historical novelist, though.
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Robin
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