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The Secret of SecretsSteven J. Williams

Hermeticism & Neoplatonism

The Secret of Secrets

The Scholarly Career of a Pseudo-Aristotelian Text in the Latin Middle Ages

by Steven J. Williams

A study of how medieval Latin scholars, from the translators to Roger Bacon and the universities, read, glossed and used the Secretum secretorum. Williams shows how the book was absorbed into the Aristotelian corpus and valued for its medicine, physiognomy and astrology.

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