Astrology, Neoplatonism & Marsilio Ficino with Angela Voss

Episode 27 October 14, 2020 01:04:36
Astrology, Neoplatonism & Marsilio Ficino with Angela Voss
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Astrology, Neoplatonism & Marsilio Ficino with Angela Voss

Oct 14 2020 | 01:04:36

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Show Notes

In this podcast we have as our guest Angela Voss, senior lecturer at the Faculty of Education of the Canterbury Christ Church University, and Programme Director for the MA in Myth, Cosmology and the Sacred. Her expertise is on Renaissance and Baroque Music and has focused a great part of her research on Marsilio Ficino. In the podcast we discuss the importance and contributions of Ficino to early modern astrology, as well as the position of the history of astrology in academia.

For more information on Angela Voss’ work see: https://canterbury.academia.edu/AngelaVoss 

Some of her publications are:

Marsilio Ficino (North Atlantic Books, Western Esoteric Masters Series, 2006)

Daimonic Imagination: Uncanny Intelligence (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013), edited with William Rowlandson.

Re-enchanting the Academy (Rubedo Press, 2017), edited with Simon Wilson.

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