Liber XV · History & Scholarship
Liber XV · History & Scholarship
Chapter III
Historians & Scholars
6 min readAries Journal: The Flagship Journal of Esotericism StudiesAries, the journal founded by Antoine Faivre and Roland Edighoffer in 1983 and relaunched by Brill in 2001 as the Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism6 min readCorrespondences Journal: Open-Access Esotericism StudiesCorrespondences, the open-access peer-reviewed journal for the study of esotericism launched in 2013: its founding, scope and place in the field.7 min readEranos Conferences: Jung, Scholem, Corbin and Eliade at AsconaThe Eranos conferences at Ascona from 1933: Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn, Jung, Scholem, Corbin and Eliade, and their legacy for the study of myth and esotericism.6 min readESSWE: The European Society for the Study of Western EsotericismThe European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE), founded in 2005: its aims, biennial conferences from Tübingen to Vilnius 2025 and networks.7 min readFrances Yates and Giordano Bruno: The Hermetic Tradition ThesisFrances Yates's Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (1964): Bruno as Hermetic magus, the Yates thesis on magic and science, and its critics.6 min readHistorians of Esotericism: The Scholars Who Built the FieldThe historians of Western esotericism: Thorndike, Yates, Walker, Scholem, Eliade, Corbin, Faivre, Hanegraaff, Goodrick-Clarke and today's scholars.6 min readThe Amsterdam Chair in History of Hermetic Philosophy (1999)The University of Amsterdam chair for the History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents, created in 1999 for Wouter Hanegraaff, and its research centre.7 min readThe Enoch AI Model and the Redating of the Dead Sea ScrollsHow the Enoch AI model (2025) combined radiocarbon dates and handwriting analysis to suggest that many Dead Sea Scrolls are older than previously thought.6 min readThe Paris EPHE Chair: First Academic Post in EsotericismThe EPHE chair of Christian esotericism, created in Paris in 1965 for François Secret and later held by Antoine Faivre and Jean-Pierre Brach.