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Frances Yates

1899 - 1981

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Dame Frances Amelia Yates (28 November 1899 – 29 September 1981) was an English historian of the Renaissance, who wrote books on the history of esotericism. After attaining an MA in French at University College London, she began to publish her research in scholarly journals and academic books, focusing on 16th-century theatre and the life of the linguist and lexicographer John Florio. In 1941, she was employed by the Warburg Institute in London, and began to work on what she termed "Warburgian history", emphasising a pan-European and inter-disciplinary approach to historiography. Her most acclaimed publication was Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (1964), in which she emphasised the role of Hermeticism in Bruno's works and the role that magic and mysticism played in Renaissance thinking. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frances Yates is the 109th most popular historian (up from 432nd in 2019), the 1,304th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,703rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular British Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Frances Yates ranks 109 out of 561. Before her are Lev Gumilyov, Al-Waqidi, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Vasily Bartold, René Grousset, and Cangjie. After her are Arnold Toynbee, Christoph Cellarius, W. Montgomery Watt, Árni Magnússon, Reinhart Koselleck, and Peter Burke.

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Among people born in 1899, Frances Yates ranks 68. Before her are Nadezhda Mandelstam, Andrei Platonov, Louis Chiron, Georges Bidault, Akim Tamiroff, and Philipp Bouhler. After her are Artur da Costa e Silva, Ernst-Robert Grawitz, Franz Jonas, John Christie, Zaki al-Arsuzi, and Aksel Sandemose. Among people deceased in 1981, Frances Yates ranks 46. Before her are David Wechsler, Benjamin Sheares, Leo Kanner, Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark, Lobsang Rampa, and Karl Richter. After her are Alberto Suppici, Marcel Bezençon, Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, Bill Shankly, Rómulo Betancourt, and Gyula Lóránt.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frances Yates ranks 1,304 out of 8,785. Before her are Louis Lucien Bonaparte (1813), John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall (1316), Sarah Brightman (1960), Janick Gers (1957), Lord Randolph Churchill (1849), and Adrian Newey (1958). After her are Ranulph Fiennes (1944), PJ Harvey (1969), Evelyn Waugh (1903), Robert Fludd (1574), Lee Child (1954), and Frances Fisher (1952).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Frances Yates ranks 7. Before her are Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800), Arnold J. Toynbee (1889), Bede (672), Edward Gibbon (1737), Bernard Lewis (1916), and Kenneth Clark (1903). After her are Arnold Toynbee (1852), W. Montgomery Watt (1909), Peter Burke (1937), Henry Thomas Buckle (1821), Norman Davies (1939), and E. P. Thompson (1924).

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