Frances Yates

Warburg historian whose Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (1964) and The Art of Memory (1966) put the Renaissance occult back at the centre of intellectual history.

⭐⭐ AND SHE IS WHY THE EARLY HALF OF THIS WING IS TAKEN SERIOUSLY AT ALL. Before Yates, Fludd and Kircher were curiosities; after her they were evidence. ⚠ Her thesis has been substantially revised since — the "Yates thesis" is now a named thing precisely because people argue with it — and both facts belong on the same card.