The Tessera of Antilia: Utopian Brotherhoods & Secret Societies in the Early Seventeenth Century [Hardcover]

Donald R. Dickson (Author), D. R. Dickson (Author), Dickson (Author)

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Book Description

Publication Date: May 25 1998 | ISBN-10: 9004110321 | ISBN-13: 978-9004110328

This is a study of the Protestant utopian movement that began in Germany, inspired in large measure by the writings of Johann Valentin Andreae and came to England through the efforts of the emigre Samuel Hartlib. The first chapters examine Andreae's utopian writings, including the Rosicrucian manifestos, as part of his lifelong commitment to found a Societas Christiana, a spiritual elite that would improve religious and intellectual life. His writings sparked a transnational movement in early modern Europe. The most significant of the German learned societies are discussed: The Societas Ereunetica, Unio Christiana and Antilia. The latter chapters consider Hartlib's English circles and various utopian and learned societies in the 1650s. The text seeks to contribute to the understanding of the role that "secret" societies and epistolary networks had in the republic of letters.

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Product Details

Hardcover: 294 pages
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers (May 25 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9004110321
ISBN-13: 978-9004110328
Product Dimensions: 16 x 2.4 x 24 cm
Shipping Weight: 680 g

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Review

"Dickson's book should immediately take its place beside some of the classic by Yates, Walker and Debus as a stellar example of good scholarship devoted to a very difficult subject, that of secret societies, their origins and influences...The last, generous chapter on utopian societies in England presents almost uniquely available information." "Pratum Book Company". "This is an impressive study of the idea of establishing learned and pious fraternities, academies and colleges as it spread in the seventeenth century from Italy, through Germany to the Baltic and on to England and eventually the New World." J.C. Davis, "Journal of the Society for Utopian Studies", 2000.

About the Author

Donald R. Dickson, Ph.D. (1981) in English, University of Illinois, is Professor of English at the Texas A & M University. He has published extensively on seventeenth-century literature, including "The Fountain of Living Waters: The Typology of the Waters of Life in Herbert" ("Vaughan and Traherne," 1987).